A German Police investigator assigned to his country's embassy in Algiers leads an illicit love story with an Algerian Prosecutor. The kidnapping of a German arms dealer puts them in direct conflict as they head each side of the case.

When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.

Shortly after his arrival in Algiers, the German arms manager Peter Richter is kidnapped together with his bodyguard. A security guard is brutally killed in the process. The Algerian authorities seem to be unclear about the kidnappers. However, they are also making little effort to support the German Embassy and the Foreign Office in their search for the abductees. The new head of the Middle East department at the Foreign Office, Katharina Prinz, who was previously ambassador to Algeria, asks Ralf Eley, the BKA liaison officer at the embassy, to conduct his own investigation.