When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.

She may miss the big-city car chases, the pistol-gripping showdowns, and the thrill of nailing a wanted killer, but way down deep, Detective Sophie Haas has gotten used to life in the sticks, and even she will admit that solving little crimes and low-key murders can also have its rewards. Lord knows there are enough, um, 'unusual' people living in this rural outpost of civilization to keep Sophie and her team busy: an ornithologist suspected of killing...

Agent Cenk Batu is a lone wolf without an office and regular hours. As his alter ego, a well-educated, Turkish multilingual undercover agent, he solves crimes with style. With this persona, he has the ability to analyze people and situations with keen sharpness.

Inspector Marie Brand is back on the murder beat working with the self-described ladies' man Jürgen Simmel. It's a May/December spring that works: he's tolerant of her eccentricities once he comprehends the scope of her brilliance and she needs a little protection along with the common sense and physicality he brings to investigations. Together they are an entertaining German dream team, catching the murderers, criminals and crooks of Cologne.

She may miss the big-city car chases, the pistol-gripping showdowns, and the thrill of nailing a wanted killer, but way down deep, Detective Sophie Haas has gotten used to life in the sticks, and even she will admit that solving little crimes and low-key murders can also have its rewards. Lord knows there are enough, um, 'unusual' people living in this rural outpost of civilization to keep Sophie and her team busy: an ornithologist suspected of killing...

Alexander Bukow is a veteran cop who doesn't mind working at the edge of the law to get results. Katrin König has a sterling reputation and is esteemed for her concentrated professionalism. Despite, or because of, their differences, they make a successful crime-fighting team when they aren't fighting each other.

Alexander Bukow is a veteran cop who doesn't mind working at the edge of the law to get results. Katrin Konig has a sterling reputation and is esteemed for her concentrated professionalism. Despite, or because of, their differences, they make a successful crime-fighting team -- when they aren't fighting each other.

Set in 1975. When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The film shows an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her dignity and her sanity.