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2 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
88 mins
On the holiday island of Vis, Branka Mari is investigating a double murder: the criminal shot dead an antiques dealer and a collector. Both were lured to the island from Split to buy lost commemorative coins from the time of the Ustasha regime. The investigations by local police chief Jure Pokovic and statements by a witness incriminate a man who was in contact with the victims: Zoran Horvath, a self-confessed nationalist. When he arrives on Vis as ordered and visits the hotel of Pokovic's 22-year-old daughter Ivena, the policeman wants to close the case in his own way. At the last second, however, Branka throws a spanner in the works. She has long since noticed that someone is setting the wrong tracks. The detective finds out that the hunt for the coins isn't the only thing that connects the two dead people and the suspects: the three of them have been to Vis before - more than 20 years ago during the civil war. At that time, an atrocity must have happened that someone now wants to atone for. When Branka uncovers the terrible secret, she faces a difficult decision.
Episode 2
88 mins
A few days before the mayoral elections in Split, Branca Mari has to solve the brutal attack on a controversial candidate. Populist Ivica Strugar shot and killed one attacker in self-defense, while the second managed to escape. At first everything looks like an attempt to intimidate a self-proclaimed clean man from the criminal milieu. In the search for the mastermind, however, Branka and her team stumble upon another, much older connection. The two perpetrators are among the victims of Strugar, who worked as a supervisor in an orphanage in the days of socialism and abused little boys there. These bear the traces of sadism throughout their lives. Burn marks from stubbed out cigarettes on the back, cuts on the neck and severe trauma. To this day, the crimes have gone unpunished because those affected are reluctant to go public with them. Branka vehemently denies that her colleague Emil could have been one of the tortured children himself. Strugar is completely different: Against the advice of his campaign manager Nada, he is now fleeing to the front. He admits without regret that he "touched hard" the boys entrusted to him at the time in order to turn them into "real" Croatians. The fact that his poll numbers rise afterwards encourages him even more. Exhilarated by invulnerability, Strugar goes too far even with the submissive Nada. Branka also sheds all inhibitions about getting him by any means necessary.