If you get too close to the truth, it becomes dangerous. This is what Alex Jaromin experiences when he leaves witness protection in Athens after the death of his mother in order to find out the truth about his father's death.

Alexander Jaromin - as Patrick Schneider in the witness protection program for 20 years after his father and eight-year-old sister were victims of an assassination attempt on the street - loses the last thing he has left of his family: his mother dies of cancer. But with her death and what she leaves Alex, old memories return and confront him again with his traumatic experiences.

Was it really Serbian nationalists who carried out the assassination attempt on him and his family twenty years ago? And what did his father have to do with it as an ordinary mountain infantryman in the German army? What role did the BND play and what is the connection with the curveball scandal and the Iraq War in 2003? Why was his father in Baghdad at the time and what does all this have to do with the assassination?

Alex wants to reopen the murder case, travels back to Germany and stirs up a lot of dust in political Berlin with his investigations. Alex finds himself caught between the fronts of secret services and conspirators who want to prevent the truth from coming to light at all costs. He is also confronted with an almost unimaginable surprise about his own family history....

The international co-production "The Second Assassination" sends the audience on an adventurous odyssey together with the protagonist and combines the reappraisal of a young family's traumatic experience with highly critical moments from contemporary history. Director Barbara Eder and director Philipp Osthus worked with a top-class cast: alongside Désirée Nosbusch, Torben Liebrecht and Jakob Diehl, it is above all Noah Saavedra who gives the story a face.