From the Very Top

At Marie’s urging, Alfons Zischl is undergoing chemotherapy while his buddy Sepp Goldhammer is desperately trying to save his very existence by palming off the armament company’s defective weapons to a Ukrainian separatist group. Yet this apparent avenue of escape must pass through a middleman in the Vatican due to restrictive arms export laws. This brings Zischl and his wife Marie to Rome, where he experiences a strange déjà vu during an audience with the Pope. Meanwhile, Goldhammer’s son, Moritz, has returned and tries to forge a completely new career path as a recruit by the German Army. Yet Moritz isn’t the only one with dark secrets in his barracks…