 Victor is an architect and he has just heard he is dying of cancer. On the morning he want to tell this to his employees, an enormous vulture is sitting in front of the window of his office. This meeting is the start of a quest to a suppressed memory of his youth. On the same morning a man is found dead near Victor s office building. A special taskforce, commanded by Victor s friend Martin, is investigating the murder. The next day there is a new victim. Martin discovered that the vulture is always first at the scene of the crime. Martin is trying to use this knowledge to solve the murders. Throughout the stories of death and crime there are stories of love and friendship. Peter and Esther are seemingly happy. But their relationship can becoming in danger when Esther meets Victor and Peter gets in touch with the businessman Leon Schiffer. In the meantime Martin meets Ellen, who works in one of the nightclubs of Schiffer. She offers herself as informer - from now on love will play a part in Martin s life. With fatal consequences. The vulture Nanga appeared to be escaped from the Berlin zoo. The bird came to Rotterdam for Agila, the female vulture of which he is separated a long time ago. Nine long days Nanga waits for Agila. The nine days of the vulture (De 9 dagen van de gier).