Stranded in Cold War-era Berlin, a British counterintelligence officer awaits the day his handlers will finally arrive to collect him. Given no information but a time and place, he diligently keeps his appointment, watching and waiting for something to happen; even as weeks turn to years . . .

A failed private investigator investigates a series of disappearances, and in order to get his way he's even willing to manipulate a grieving mother.