Set in the lat 1960s Cold-War era East Berlin, we're confronted with a man named Metzger who has a checkered past. Formerly a secret police (Stasi) agent, Metzger is now out of the spying game and works as a school teacher for what looks like the 6th grade. Is he completely out of the game? He's seen at a bomb disposal operation (unexploded ordnance from WWII in Berlin's common) that goes horribly awry. A journalist, Fräulein Astrid Kruckel happens to break away from the proceedings before the explosion, borrowing her photographer's friend's camera to shoot something mysterious she saw on a roof nearby.
The first part of this 244 page hallmark of graphic sharpness delves mainly into Metzger's and Kruckel's day to day as their paths lead them further into what's going on.
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