Arne Czock

Sara, journaliste, vit dans la solitude depuis le décès de son fiancé. Un matin, elle trouve sur son balcon un oiseau porteur d'une lettre d'amour signée par un certain Georg et adressée à sa fiancée perdue. Sa rédactrice en chef, sur le point de la virer, lui donne une seconde chance en lui commandant ce reportage sur l'auteur des lettres. À peine arrivée sur l'île où réside Georg, Sara tombe sous le charme de cet homme brisé par le deuil de son grand amour...

Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of the RAF. Without initially disclosing that he not only knew the dead man but was even related to him, Glauberg begins to investigate, supported by the young, attractive but inexperienced BKA officer Paula Reinhardt. The traces lead to Berlin to the scattered remnants of the RAF and its still functioning cable groups. Wolgast lived there in a shared apartment before he, like so many former terrorists, fled to the GDR in the 1980s. A former roommate of Hans Veith Seewald points out the parallel to Glauberg to a murder case from 1978.