The state's power is absolute, and the 'truth' is whatever the Stasi say it is. So when the murder of a woman is officially labelled an 'accidental death', Major Karen Muller of the People's Police is faced with a dilemma. To solve the crime, she must defy the official version of events. But defy the Stasi means putting her own life - and the lives of her young family - in danger.
In 1978 East Germany nothing is as it seems.