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The System

Mike is 20-years-old, attractive, intelligent and a loner. Only with his best friend Dustin does he share his thoughts, and an apartment in a pre-fab housing development in Rostock. On the rooftop, they smoke joints and sort out stolen goods. Mike doesn′t really think any further than the next day. But everything changes when he gets caught during a break-in by Konrad Böhm. The charismatic businessman introduces Mike to a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret agents who have managed to carry over their network into reunited Germany.

They use their old contacts for economic advantages. Mike′s initial mistrust turns into curiosity and then admiration. Böhm is the first person to actually set clear
boundaries for Mike and tells him something about his deceased father. He fills that painful, empty space in Mike′s soul which developed because of Mike′s mother′s insistent silence. Her attempts to protect Mike from Böhm and the past, however, have the opposite effect.

When Mike realizes that his father′s death 20 years ago was not in fact a tragic accident, it′s almost too late. Does understanding everything mean to forgive everything?

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH