The German energy transition has its flagship thriller. Dying is easier than living at the “River Edge” in the Rhenish lignite mining area. You have to give yourself so much reality first.
Investigators on the wrong track: Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Schenk (Dietmar Bär) steal the Madonna from the church.
The lawn in front of the new semi-detached house is too green to be true. It is David Lynch green and may hide a severed ear in its shadow. The pensioner Peter Schnitzler (Peter Franke) looks out of his home at the manicured lawn, closes the curtain – and drinks with his wife the deadly cocktail that is supposed to end their lives. The couple was relocated from Bützenich, where he was mayor, to Neu-Bützenich. Her old home fell victim to lignite mining by an ominous “corporation”. But life is no longer the new life in the test-tube settlement.
