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In the basement of an unfinished building. Bright spotlights and electrifying pills transport its young guests into another world: dancing bodies, reflections of light and rumbling bass lines. Marc (August Diehl), freshly graduated from police academy, is among those who enjoy music and drugs - until Police Detective Minks (Christian Redl) and his people raid the place. Marc can escape, but his jacket is found. The pills he hid in it provide an opportunity for Minks, and his young colleague will face a tough decision: Marc will either work for Minks in homicide, or his career will be finished on drug possession charges.
For some strange reason Minks has it in for his young colleague. Why else would this cynical detective, generally feared for his unconventional methods want Marc at his side? Soon it becomes clear what Mink is expecting from the cooperation with his party-wise fellow detective. He wants to get access to a world that is closed to him, a world which swallowed up his daughter Marie two years ago. Marc's investigation leads him to the burnt corpse of a young woman, and several other leads direct him to a series of other murder cases, which all have one thing in common: the perp seems to dissect his victims with a scalpel because all of them are missing large pieces of skin. During his investigation Marc comes across Maya (Nadeshda Brennicke), the beautiful if very cool girlfriend of one of the victims. She too will be sucked into the maelstrom of this case, from which there seems to be no escape...

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Directed by

Robert Schwentke

Writing credits

Robert Schwentke

Cast overview:

August Diehl
Christian Redl
Nadeshda Brennicke
Johan Leysen
Monica Bleibtreu
Gustav-Peter Wohler
Ilknur Bahadir
Ingo Naujoks
Jasmin Schweirs

 

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