A gripping political thriller about cop culture and a security apparatus that is blind to right-wing criminality, up to the highest ranks.

Kurt Halder, the President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is on his way from Cologne to Munich to attend a meeting of the special task force »Nordring«. Nordring is an industrial area in Munich, where a police car was set on fire and a detective was killed. The police suspect a militant left-wing radical network, therefore Halder’s Office intervenes in the investigation. But right-wing extremist circles are also involved, the murdered man belonged to a subversive police group that sent threatening letters to exponents of the lefty scene.

Halder develops a personal interest in the case; he targets two former sympathizers of the Rote Armee Fraktion, who give him the impression that they want to resume their anti-capitalist and anti-fascist struggle. In fighting the RAF remnants, Halder sees himself in the tradition of his great predecessors who had to pay with their lives for their struggle against these terrorists. And Halder has another motif: A former schoolmate has contacted and invited him to visit her, which he can combine with his business trip. A dream from his youth seems to come true.

Layer by layer, Max Bronski dissects the worldview and inner workings of a right-wing ideologist at the highest level of state.