Berlin in October 1933. Lawyer Eugen Goltz receives a phone call. He hurriedly searches for his client, the dancer Alice Resow, in a hotel on Lietzenburger Strasse. He finds her dead. In the next moment, the Gestapo storms into the hotel, but to Goltz's surprise, they are only interested in making Alice's death look like a suicide. Eugen Goltz decides to uncover the background of this mysterious case. A hot lead takes him back to the night of the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933.