STORY LINE (in english):
'A request for assistance from the public prosecutor general of the pre-1989 GDR (German Democratic Republic) requests the support of the investigative authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany. The body of a boy was found at a rest area on the
transit motorway near Leipzig . The GDR authorities' suspected 'a connection to the Federal Republic of Germany from the fact that the boy was wearing clothing items of West German origin. However, the request for help is withdrawn very soon. Chief
inspector Paul Trimmel from the Hamburg''s police force 'is still concerned with the case. Trimmel's East Berlin colleague Karl Lincke from' East Germany's GDR ministry for state security knows him from a job in the former reich criminal police office -
he assures him on the phone that no further assistance is required.
Trimmel begins his own research. These initially lead him to a villa' in Hamburg's posh Elbchaussee' section . 'By asking a neighbor, the inspector found out that the wealthy chemist' named 'Erich Landsberger, father of the illegitimate child who was
found dead and who has since been identified as her son Christian by a GDR citizen' named 'Eva Billsing, has moved to Frankfurt am Main' in the west.
'Chief inspector Trimmel initially drives to Frankfurt for further investigations. Landsberger, however, is not very cooperative with him. Trimmel does not give up and sets off across the inner-German border towards West Berlin. In the vicinity of
Leipzig he fakes a breakdown' of his car, 'takes a taxi and looks for Eva Billsing, but does not find her at home. When Eva finds out about this, she panics and meets with her' boyfriend, 'the people's police officer' (of the East German GDR) Peter
Klaus. She shows him a message from Trimmel. Klaus takes the initiative and has Trimmel, who is staying in West Berlin, tracked down. Along the way, he learns that Trimmel is a commissioner for the Hamburg police. At a rest stop on the transit
highway, he intercepts Trimmel and drives him to a lonely place to question him. There is a physical test of strength. But Trimmel manages to get Klaus to meet Eva and find out how the child died. He suspects that Landsberger exchanged his terminally
ill child for Eva's healthy child. Under pressure from Trimmel's assertion, she finally admits to having exchanged the child, with the promise to later marry Landsberger.
Trimmel seeks Landsberger and confronts him with the story and the information that Eva no longer wants to marry him. This leads Landsberger to threaten Trimmel with a gun, whereby a shot is released, but it goes into the ceiling. Landsberger wants to
personally convince himself of Trimmel's statement and forces him to come along with the threat that he would otherwise report his GDR trip to Trimmel's superiors.
Landsberger, Peter Klaus, Trimmel and Eva Billsing meet at a GDR motorway rest area. Eva Landsberger confirmed there that she no longer wanted to follow him to West Germany because she needed a man who was always there. She also wants her son back, but
Landsberger refuses. Instead, he gives her a bracelet and they say goodbye. On the return trip, Trimmel wants to know from Landsberger how he got rid of the child, when he realizes that the child is still alive and that he has' smothered him in safety'
to be on the safe side. They drive home, but Landsberger distrusts the inspector because he doesn't know how or if Trimmel will charge him or not. A picture of Landsberger with his son in his arms signals that he will probably leave him' alone.
SOURCE: (updated)
from Wikipedia Germany, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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