BROADCAST ON ZDF IN 2024
When his partner Susanne Koch is not lying next to him in bed as usual, Inspector Martin Brühl knows immediately that something is wrong. What he doesn't know is that Susanne has witnessed a crime on her way home at night. She was seriously injured when an ATM was blown up and taken away by the perpetrators without further ado. Martin is able to convince his superior Mattuschek that Susanne has been the victim of a crime, but is relieved of the case due to his emotional state of emergency. He resists and learns that Susanne had a date that she wanted to hide from him: a former fellow student of Susanne's, with whom she was previously involved in a toxic relationship, has recently resumed contact with her. Martin is convinced that he has found the person responsible for Susanne's sudden disappearance. But when the team led by Eli Wiesner and Frauke Buhr are able to establish a connection between Susanne's disappearance and a series of professionally organized ATM blasts, a terrible suspicion grows in Martin that seems to be confirmed shortly afterwards: Susanne was to be eliminated as an unwanted witness. Martin has no idea that one of the perpetrators, tormented by moral conflicts, has only faked Susanne's execution and is nursing her back to health in his house near the Polish border. But the pressure on the unstable kidnapper to get rid of Susanne for good is growing from two sides: Not only are the investigators on his trail, but his own unscrupulous backers also suspect that, contrary to their expectations, the witness is still alive and could therefore be dangerous to them...
DIRECTOR: Andreas Senn
SCRIPT: Andreas Linke
CAST: Roeland Wiesnekker, Meike Droste, Marc Ben Puch, Sara Fazilat, Michael Schenk, Adina Vetter, Renè Schwittay, Dennis Kamitz, Manuel Harder, Petra Hartung
DOP: Leah Striker
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Anke Osterloh
COSTUME DESIGN: Gitti Fuchs
PRODUCER: Moritz von der Groeben
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Frank Nitz
EDITOR: Daniel Blum (ZDF)