Sabine Nemez is now studying at the BKA academy with the eccentric forensic scientist Sneijder. Although she is shocked by the death of her boyfriend, her lecturer puts the young investigator on three unsolved murders. Second case of the duo after Andreas Gruber.
Michael Roddick, espía al servicio de la RFA, consciente de que la más que probable caída del régimen soviético relegará a toda una generación de agentes secretos al ostracismo, abandona el servicio tras el fracaso de su última misión, y desaparece llevándose con él a Elena, la hija de una espía rusa muerta en extrañas circunstancias. Michael y Elena se instalan en Barcelona, donde abren un pequeño restaurante que les permitirá olvidar su pasado turbulento. Pero sus antiguos compañeros reaparecen reclamando asuntos pendientes y Roddick se ve inmerso de nuevo en una vertiginosa pesadilla.
Luisa returns to her parents' home when her father becomes bedridden. She's expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him, but their relationship is tense and the physical contact with the man proves to be unpleasant for her. In quiet moments she remembers scenes from her childhood Long repressed and forgotten memories force their way back into the present, until a final realization brings a family secret to light.
At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound.
