Mike Hilton served eight years in prison for being innocent. When he is released from prison early, he wants revenge on the men who were responsible. But the ex-commissioner in charge at the time, Jack Bellamy, has given in to drunkenness. And Mike's lawyer Cunningham continues to make crooked deals. He holds the key to solving the case. When Bellamy picks himself up again, he and Hilton are able to bring Cunningham and the gangster Whity to justice.

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.

In 1951, East Berlin's railroad transportation fund was robbed in a spectacular burglary. The vaults contained the West Marks that the East Berlin Reichsbahn administration collected through its services in the West sectors of Berlin.

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.