The Passenger

Berlin attorney Robert Stern is recognized and respected in legal circles, yet a long-standing emotional wound hasn’t let him go for the past ten years. Still, what he has to face pales next to what he’s confronted with when his former friend Karina Freitag, a nurse in a neurology department, brings to their meeting her patient—someone who needs legal services. The potential client, Simon Sacks, is ten years old, suffers from an incurable illness, and claims that fifteen years ago he killed a man.