As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil. Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker...
A pharmaceutical company hires Gerhard Self, a 68-year-old private detective, to investigate a hacker who is threatening the security of the computer system of his brother in law's company. While Self is in the search for the hacker, he will have to confront his own secret past...