Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Krause and Elsa are stunned: their sister Meta wants to get married. She chose the Cologne taxi driver Rudi Weisglut, whom she met two years earlier during Krause's cure on the Baltic Sea.

The story of a group of young American Christian fundamentalists on a mission to Berlin to try to bring the Germans back to Jesus.

A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.