Jealousy

One evening, a 4-year-old boy goes missing from the playground of a housing estate. Inspector Martin Brühl (Roeland Wiesnekker) questions the distraught mother Dina Ritter (Stefanie Amarell), who claims to have let her son Benjamin out of sight for just a moment. The investigation takes a sudden turn when her brother Tobias Ritter (Jacob Matschenz) appears on the scene. Apologising for the situation, he explains to the surprised police officers that the missing boy is just a product of Dina’s imagination. The ‘mother’ appears to be struggling with a trauma from her past that clouds her perception of reality. The case seems clear and is about to be closed, but Inspector Brühl cannot let go of the matter. He investigates on his own and is surprised to discover that Benjamin does exist – but not the way Dina imagines it: The boy’s name is Emil and he lives in a house on the outskirts of Berlin, together with his family: his sister Mieke (Lina Hüesker) and his parents Imke (Stefanie Stappenbeck) and Holger Sachtleben (Wanja Mues). Soon the investigators learn there is a connection between Dina and the Sachtleben family.