Ulrich Beck

Α few years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, an unknown physicist from Eastern Germany, who was not interested in politics, is the most powerful woman in the world. Her teacher in the small town where she grew up remembers that she was the smartest student he ever had. Those who have worked with her claim that “Merkiavelli” exercises power without moral barriers, just as Machiavelli taught. A journalist, who knows her well, claims that she uses the methods of a Mafia godmother. In 2008, the German Chancellor was asked to handle the international financial crisis. The countries of the South were placed in the test tube. “If I had to write a book on the Shock Doctrine at this moment,” says Naomi Klein, “it would be on Greece.” How did Merkel manage to impose German hegemony in Europe?

L'inspecteur Bodmer est chargé de suivre et de juger les prétendants à la nationalité suisse. Aidé de Fisher, son stagiaire, il étudie les cas de la famille Grimolli, du docteur Starke et sa femme, ainsi que celui d'une danseuse grâce à différentes questions et autres tests plus farfelus les uns que les autres.