Qu Jianming, deputy captain of the criminal police detachment of Yancheng Public Security Bureau, and Cao Xu, a police officer, both have a dedication to the truth and a desire for justice. The two former friends gradually became strangers and eventually stood on opposing sides
The two-part documentary Crime in Post-War Germany shows how strained life was between 1945 and 1949 in the four occupied zones. Using the example of individual, particularly serious criminal cases, like in Dresden where a wood collector comes across the severed legs of a person or in Hamburg, where the so-called rubble murders terrify the whole city.
The events of the series of the offender revolve in a framework of suspense and excitement in separate episodes, where each episode is investigated in a different crime by searching for clues and evidence in order to reach the perpetrator of each crime.