Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and 80s. The country is polarized due to the power struggle of the German state and the "Red Army Faction". Society is torn, the fronts are irreconcilable. The life stories of both Wolfgang Grams and Alfred Herrhausen are tragically linked to this era. Grams is the one who takes up arms for moral rigor; Herrhausen however seizes power and dies when powerful.

Black Box BRD

The Scot John Law is a mathematical genius, able to calculate at lightning speed, specialized in probabilities. In the salons of London he makes a small fortune with his skills, in Amsterdam he studies the local financial system and comes into contact with the idea of "artificial money", supported by gold coins. He soon has the "Banque Royale" founded, in which banknotes are getting printed, in order to get the catastrophic financial situation in France back under control. The country is practically debt free overnight and Law becomes chief financial administrator. The invention of stocks is the next step, but it turns out to be a gigantic speculative bubble. The documentation tells this story.