Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling
clairvoyant, a star since the days of the Weimar Republic. For years he
has mystified Germany with his astounding prophecies. Bora's inquiry,
supported by former S.A member Florian Grimm, resurrects memories of the
excessive and brilliant world of Jazz Age cabarets and locales. Around
them, in the oppressive summer heat, constant allied bombing, war-weary
Berlin teems with refugees and nearly a million foreign laborers. Soon
Bora realizes that there is much more at stake than murder in a paranoid
city where everyone suspects everyone, and where persistent rumors
whisper about a conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the Nazi
hierarchy. Could the charming Emmy Pletsch, who works for Claus von
Stauffenberg, be a key to understanding what is going on? Bora
eventually meets with Stauffenberg, facing an anguishing moral dilemma,
as a German soldier and as a man. The 20 July plot and its dramatic
implications as never told before.