S1.E3 ∙ Complotto internazionale

At the beginning of 2012 the so called war against crime, led by the Mexican Federal Government brought, as consequence, a number of nearly 50,000 casualties and a social climate of violence and distrust. How was this experienced by the men and women who fight this violence from the trenches of science? To the End of Reckoning tells through the eyes of the Jalisco Forensics Institute the development of this engagement, in one of the most violent states in the Country.

Dark scenes from Russia in 2004, that reveal the anger and despair of ordinary Russians who feel abandoned by the state infrastructure: Old pensioners cling to one of the last communal apartments in the center of St. Petersburg. Friends and family make sense of the death of a poisoned man outside of St. Petersburg. A parent, mourning the loss of a son killed in Chechnya, confronts a military representative north of the Arctic Circle. A young gay man drinks himself to oblivion in an apartment in St. Petersburg.