England 1745. Ambitious William Augustus, the King’s favourite son, takes command of the English army, while his friend Jan Veenstra – the son of his German teacher – is sent to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He is appointed private tutor to the Laird’s daughter at Dunvegan Castle. But Jan is charged with an additional task: he is to work as government agent and report back any suspicious activities of the Scottish opposition. Jan is glad to have escaped the intrigues at court and is wholly unaware that he is part of an intrigue himself. More...

1938 – a cold October day in Hamburg, and a seven-year-old girl hasn’t come back home from school. Her friends don’t know where she is. The teacher says: “Anna? - She never even turned up for school today!” It has long since grown dark outside. Police patrols are on high alert. The Reich Radio Station Hamburg is broadcasting hourly search reports. Meanwhile Kommissar Berger tries to reassure the mother. But he fears the worst. More...

Hamburg 1920. Burglaries and robberies are the order of the day. The police face a well organised gang of criminals, who stop at nothing, not even brutal force. But these are violent times. The young post-war Germany is stuck in a severe economic crisis. The Kapp Putsch, hunger riots – Hamburg is in a state of emergency. More...

A wild chase on Hamburg’s most shameless bank robber: Hamburg, June 1959. The most spectacular bank robbery ever in the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: a masked man robs Hamburg’s central branch of the Deutsche Bank, less than 200 metres away from the next police station. But who is behind these offences? Mehr...

Düsseldorf, February 1929. By the fence of a large construction site the body of a little girl is found. Strangled, abused, stabbed, poured over with petrol and burned. “Who would do such a thing?” asks one shocked policeman. The cynical reply: the father, probably. Or the uncle. But this case is different. Are these the deeds of a madman? Finally a suspect is caught and admits to everything. But the gruesome murders continue. More...