Reporter Jan Schulte is passed information indicating that the health minister manipulated the recipient list for organ donors to move her brother up in line for a heart transplant. The story, which single parent Schulte hopes will finally snag him a staff job, turns out to be a mean falsehood. But still at issue is who would want to do that kind of damage to Minister Stade’s reputation. When sensitive documents are stolen from the editorial offices of the well-regarded daily “Die Republik”, the affair begins to pick up steam. Jan ropes in young, ambitious parliamentarian Katharina Pflüger to help investigate. Then he is forced to realise the whole thing was a set-up and a completely different set of forces very close to him are involved in this game of power and knowledge.