American war correspondent Jack Geismerhas just arrived in Germany, this time on a live report for the Potsdam Peace Conference. At the Peace Conference, the leaders of the Allied countries met to discuss the future of a defeated Germany and how to build a new, free Europe. Of course, these high-sounding reasons are only used to deceive the public. In fact, their real purpose is to scavenge the last drop of oil and water that can be obtained as a victorious country.
Jack himself is no stranger to Berlin. Before the outbreak of World War II, he lived in Berlin for a while, and also ran a press office and left an unforgettable love here. When he once again set foot on this familiar and unfamiliar land in a rickety military jeep, it felt as if he had passed away. The driver who picks him up at the airport, Cobbello Tullyis a serving American soldier. This young man from the Midwest looks warm, kind, and upright, but as you will soon find out, this look The seemingly innocent young man is actually dirty and cold at heart, specializing in making war fortunes and doing black market transactions. Jack is not surprised by this. After all, this city has just experienced the baptism of war. Everyone who comes here has unspeakable secrets in their hearts, including himself. They hope to get what they want here. Everything: money, power, life, or just another way of life.
Jack has no interest in Cobrow's black market transactions and the real identity of the buyer, but when he meets Cobrow's girlfriend Lena Brandt, he has to sigh the world So small: Lena was Jack's former love in Berlin, however, the sensitive Jack soon discovered that Lena had changed, no longer the carefree little girl he knew before, war destroyed With all her beliefs, even breathing seemed extremely difficult in this almost ruined city.
Copero was found dead in the desert the next day after he went to do business in an area occupied by Russian troops, with 100,000 silver coins in his pocket missing. In the process of following up the investigation, Jack finds himself involved in a maelstrom of a murder mystery, and there is a larger conspiracy behind it, enough to affect those in power in the United States and Russia.
When all the clues brought Jack back to Lena, he found that Lena had been deceiving himself. Jack was desperate because he knew that in a country still mired in the horrors of war, it would be nearly impossible to find out the truth: that's what it is in war, and you have to ask some immoral to live. The compromise of the trade, with faith and humanity in exchange for survival.
