LOGLINE

After her kingpin father is gunned down at his wedding, a Serbian eco-activist dives into Frankfurt’s underworld to claim his fortune, risking her soul to build a garden from blood money.

SYNOPSIS

When her father Tachi, a feared Serbian kingpin, is gunned down at his wedding, Michaela (29), an agricultural innovator, steps into the wreckage of his criminal empire in Frankfurt. She hopes to turn blood money into seed money and invest in accessible, self-sustaining farms so people can grow their healthy food. But first, she must get it before the vultures do.
To earn her place, she pitches a vertical cannabis farm to rescue Tachi’s failing operation and gains a foothold, keeping her identity a secret. Control is slipping between three men: Maksim, Tachi’s volatile heir, Aslan Demir, a saintly tyrant running a morphine empire behind pharmaceutical logos, and Victor, a burned-out narcotics officer trapped in the wrong world with the wrong values.
As her mother rises from the ashes in the Balkans, turning grief into vengeance, and Victor begins to suspect the truth, Michaela must outgrow the shadow of violent men, reinventing power, methods, and herself from the inside.
The Graft is a dark, stylized, flamboyant crime saga about survival, inherited scars, and the impossible dream of building something pure from a broken system.
Loosely based on true events and the Balkan smuggling routes, the series is inspired by the downfall of a real-life kingpin from the writer’s hometown and the corrupt structures that outlived him.
Question: Can you grow a garden without getting your hands dirty?