Die Akte General plot
In the young Federal Republic, where at the end of the 1950s political and judicial officials from the Nazi era were still in full control, Attorney General Fritz Bauer is fighting a lonely battle against covering up National Socialist crimes and the restoration policy of the Adenauer government. He is firmly convinced that this is the only way to establish a young democracy. He is aware that Germany has no interest in the arrest of Adolf Eichamann, yet Bauer is trying to get the Israeli secret service to arrest the organizer of the mass deportations who is believed to be in Argentina.