Overview
- The series launched on ARD’s Mediathek and began linear broadcast on Sunday, November 1, 2026, with six hour‑long episodes available to stream for a year.
- The story starts in 2015 and traces the investigators’ pursuit of Anis Amri while deliberately omitting a filmed depiction of the December 19, 2016 attack.
- Writers mix fictional lead investigators with documented elements, including a real informant identified in files as “VP01,” to dramatize how intelligence work unfolded.
- The drama centers on concrete institutional problems—competing agency priorities, ad hoc operational choices and unclear responsibility—that the creators say let Amri slip through despite long‑running surveillance.
- Premiered at TIFF and screened at Filmfest Hamburg, the show has reopened public debate about redacted investigation files, survivors’ and relatives’ responses and possible renewed calls for accountability.