Bürgerbräukeller Munich, November 8, 1939. A few months after the war begins, a bomb explodes. The intended target leaves the hall just minutes before. The person who has been planning the attack for months is arrested shortly before the explosion. Georg Elser aimed to prevent bloodshed with his assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler - and failed. Just like over sixty years later, the scientist Johannes Faller, who walks in Elser's footsteps and becomes entangled in the ominous, criminal traps of German history.