Traude
After suffering a severe head injury on the job, criminal investigator Tommy Wehrschitz is being suspended - for his own good. In order to deal with the changes in his life he decides to go to southern Burgenland, to sell property he inherited from his estranged father. Barely arrived, Tommy is invited to see the circus, which is currently in the village, but the colorful spectacle is cut short when a flying knife misses its target and kills an audience member instead. But was it really just an accident? Tommy begins to dig and the deeper he gets, the darker the secrets he uncovers until he has to fear for his own life.
For months, the corrupt Viennese policeman Albert Schuh unsuccessfully investigates the murder case of his former friend and colleague. Then he gets a young, overambitious partner. The German colleague Thorsten Richter is a set of correctness and ambition, and thus the exact opposite of the Viennese, the "benefits" from the criminal scene is quite open. Since the two can not stand, the dispute does not stay out. The Austrian stops the German an unnecessary undercover job on an erotic chat line and determined alone on.
Barbara 'Betti' Fröhlich
Gisela von Rachlitz
1956, invasión de Hungría. Unos ciudadanos intentan huir de Hungría cuando el país es invadido por las tropas soviéticas encargadas de reprimir la revuelta popular contra el gobierno comunista húngaro. El autobús en el que viajan es detenido por un oficial soviético, que se siente atraído por una mujer británica que se encuentra entre los pasajeros.
