1978: Jewish game show host Hans has a live show scheduled for November 9, the 40th anniversary of the notorious Nazi pogrom of 1938. Hans wants to attend the memorial event, but his TV boss forces him to do his job: The show must go on.

Rosenthal

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.

The General Case

An emergency call has Commissioner Sarah Kohr rush to a biochemical laboratory, where she finds a seriously injured woman and a man with a bloody knife. But the alleged perpetrator Thomas Lichter protests his innocence. After the trial he takes Sarah hostage and flees with her to the Old Land. The policewoman escapes him and is now trying to shed light on the background to the bloody act. A highly dangerous investigation ...