The reason for discontinuing the series was star Ottfried Fischer's advancing health problems, as the production company announced in May 2013.

In sometimes not quite kosher ways, he contributes to the solution of the case with the support of his sacristan Armin Knopp, his housekeeper Margot Roßhauptner and the clumsy inspector Albin Geiger.

[1] The Roman Catholic priest Guido Braun - despite the explicit prohibition by his bishop Hemmelrath - cannot refrain from taking care of mysterious deaths in his respective parish of service.

All too often, however, these turn out to be insidious murders - and because of the public attention they attract, Braun is punitively transferred by his superior to a supposedly quiet neighborhood every two or three episodes or so, but never to his beloved Bavarian fatherland.

While "criminalizing" - as the bishop says - the priest more or less forcibly clashes with the respective police "authority", mostly in the person of the good-natured and slightly simple-minded chief inspector Geiger, who is also frequently transferred due to his "successes", happens to hold seminars on location, takes vacation or has to provide administrative assistance for his colleagues.

Monsignore Anselm Mühlich, the secretary of Bishop Hemmelrath, turns out to be Braun's adversary, trying to intrigue wherever he can - and often getting the short end of the stick.

In the episode "Grimms Mördchen", however, Mühlich relies on Braun's criminological skills because he fears that he himself will become the victim of an assassination attempt.

When the wealthy widow Gronewold, for whose deceased husband Braun read a Latin mass in exchange for "active charity" not quite according to church law, died unexpectedly, Braun was able to prove that, among others, a Dr. Hermann Teusch wanted to obtain the widow's inheritance by fraud.