Um... do you have a moment? I'd like to ask you a personal question.

Um... do you have a moment? I'd like to ask you a personal question.

Sorry, Schwarz, but I'm not in the mood for neighborly chit-chat right now.

It's about Kerstin. Your wife.

... what is this? Who sent you?

Nobody sent me. Why don't you calm down first?

Susanne? Why is she interfering now?

Leave me alone, Mr. Schwarz! Kerstin is dead!

DEAD, DAMN IT!

Get out of here, Schwarz! Or else...

But Kerstin is alive!

... what?

Here, Kerstin's file. I found it at the Ministry.

I was going to show you something, but I just realized I don't have it with me.

What's this about?

I would rather show it to you. I'll get the file and come back later.

A file? All right, if you say so ...

That's... that's... my Kerstin!

All these years I thought she was dead!

You did not know about it?

Sorry about that.

I didn't want to believe it.

... I didn't want to believe it.

But after I hadn't heard from her for months, even years, I guess at some point reason prevailed over my desperate hope.

No one survives long in the camps, every child knows that!

Not even my Kerstin, as strong as she was! At least that's what I thought until now ... Can you blame me?

About Kerstin ...

About those camps ...

Labor camps. Re-education camps. All the prisons and torture cellars where you take brave people who still believe in good!

Who are they?

Don't ask such hypocritical questions! You are also one of those scumbags!

You should die! All of you!

Government, pah, don't make me laugh! A fucking corrupt killing machine you are!

They arrested her. Cruelly abducted and locked away!

Because of a fucking song! A meaningless, cheesy, stupid song!

But no, that was probably too happy for them up there! Just imagine: people would remember what it's like to be happy! Carefree and free!

That's what those pigs up there are afraid of! That the people feel joy again and get to know things! Values that mean something to them and for…

That's what those pigs up there are afraid of! That the people feel joy again and get to know things! Values that mean something to them and for which it is worth fighting!

She was locked up for that!

And what did you do?

About those camps ...

Misunderstanding? Wake up already, man!

We live in a state that considers its own citizens a threat!

Do you think I don't know that you monitor all the tenants in this house?

But that's how we all play our part here. So as not to be targeted by the state ourselves.

And so we make each other's lives a living hell in the name of the powerful.

And so we hope to escape at least with our lives.

And what did you do?

I understand.

You are also a prisoner, Mr. Schwarz. And a good prison guard at that.

Of course I did EVERYTHING to get Kerstin out of there!

What do you think? You have a family too!

But no matter where I called, no matter what I did, everywhere I encountered a uniformed wall of silence!

But nothing happened! Instead, I was given to understand that I would only make Kerstin's situation worse by my behavior.

I was threatened that if I did not stop my research and protest, Kerstin would die!

Then I began to protest publicly by playing Kerstin's songs. She always had the better voice of us, but I didn't care.

I told her story everywhere! And I played her songs everywhere!

That's when I gave up. And so did Kerstin ...

I understand you!

Take it easy!

But you have to believe me, I am not one of them!

In general, what happened to Kerstin sounds like a terrible misunderstanding to me!

About the file ...

Don't give up on her!

What else can I do?

It was easier to believe she was dead.

Kerstin is alive, that's the most important thing! Maybe now you can find out where she is being held?

Like what? My hands are tied!

But I have never forgotten her! NEVER!

Well... now that we have a lead again!

But you have to help me, Schwarz!

What? Me?

You have access to the ministry and you have proven that you have your heart in the right place.

Please find out for me where exactly Kerstin is being held!

Well ... I can ask around.

Thank you!

And I don't know if this is helpful, but one of my people told me about a punishment camp called "Grauholz" where artists are supposedly held.

So be sure to see if you can find any information on this bearing, that would definitely be a good starting point for the investigation.

I'll give it a shot.

You spoke of your people ...

Thank you, Mr. Schwarz!

Like-minded people. Men and women like me, who don't succumb and believe in a better future!

Some call us the resistance, but let's face it, we are just ordinary citizens who don't want to be oppressed any longer!

But we can chat about such things another time. For now, the priority is to find Kerstin's whereabouts!

I will try. But I can't promise anything.

Thank you anyway, Mr. Schwarz!

It shows that she's still in custody, but alive.

I have a lot to do and I'm in a hurry to-

Kerstin? How ...

Stop playing games right now!

In other words, I spoke with Susanne. Your sister.

But she sang it from the bottom of her heart, and she meant it!

Kerstin gave people hope! A little bit of faith in better days! A spark in their hearts!

We are all in a prison in this country. We are prisoners and guards at the same time!

Always in the tender hope that her beauty, along with the cruel injustice that befell Kerstin, would stir people and motivate them to act upon it.

I swore to myself that if I couldn't save Kerstin, I would take this whole damn system down with me.

Then you can try to work towards her release.

But that does not mean that the world as a whole is bad!

I'm sure that can be fixed.

Yes! And she is in preventive detention. Where, is not mentioned here.

I did not know that!

You really believed all along that Kerstin was dead?

Oh, I didn't mean to stir up any old feelings with you. But isn't that good news?

What exactly happened to Kerstin back then?

What kind of camps are you talking about?

Didn't you do anything about it? It sounds like Kerstin's case must have been a terrible misunderstanding!

You mentioned earlier that Kerstin had been taken to a camp. What kind of camps did you mean?

And did you try to get Kerstin out of there?

Now I know what you mean, Henker.

I can understand your anger, Mr. Henker! I am terribly sorry about all this!

Calm down, Mr. Henker! What happened to Kerstin is terrible.

But now that you know that Kerstin is still alive, can't you do something?

You should not give up now! You have to be there for each other in a marriage after all!

All right, I'll see what I can do.

You just spoke about your people. Who did you mean by that?