The Berlin building contractor Klaus Keller is found shot dead on his 90th birthday. A sign hangs around his neck with the words: "I was too cowardly to fight for Germany." Keller was the senior boss of a large Berlin construction company. His biggest project at the moment was the construction of a documentation center about the Shoah in Israel. A right-wing assassination attempt? Much seems to speak for it.
But then the case takes a different turn. A youth photo of the victim Klaus and his brother Gert has disappeared from the dead man's apartment. Does the murder have anything to do with the two brothers? One was an economic prodigy and winner of the reunification, the other was a Stasis major, SED functionary and a loser from the reunification. TwoPost-war paths that diverged with the division of Germany and could not reunite even after 1989.
Nina Rubin and Robert Karow ask why and delve into a complex family history in which the generation of the sons also plays an important role. The two detective inspectors encounter Germany's past and its consequences and end up facing a crime they had no idea about.
The Berlin crime scene "A few words after midnight" was produced for the 30th anniversary of German reunification and tells the story of two "divided" brothers who never got back together with the unit.
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