Siegfried W. Braun

The story of the life and survival of a half-Jewish family in Germany from 1882 to 1945. The focus is on the family of the failed pianist and conductor Alf Bertini and his Jewish wife Lea Lehmberg. They live in poor conditions in Hamburg and fight to give their children a better life until Hitler seizes power.

Former police officer Bronner runs a bar. But he leads a double life as an undercover investigator. In the course of his work, he discovers that the bar’s owner, Michael Naumann, is involved in shady political dealings. When a police officer is mauled to death by a dog, all clues lead back to his bar.

Horst Tappert plays a high-ranking dignitary in the Vatican who will soon be made a cardinal. But shortly before this goal, a young woman confronts him in the confessional and accuses him of hypocrisy. She reveals that she is his daughter, whose existence he did not know. Now he is faced with a choice: if he commits to her, he risks his appointment; If he denies her, he loses the only person who is close to him.