With the publication of the Panama Papers in 2016, which showed the world a structure some used to evade taxes at a global scale, two journalists from the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier, alongside 376 other professionals from 76 countries achieved a first-rate news bombshell.

Two years later, the team of researchers is looking at new challenges: after a conspiratorial encounter with Edward Snowden, they try to expose the machinations that led to the assassination of the blogger Daphne Caruana Galicia in Malta, and to discover an arms dealer involved in Iran’s atomic program.

In the spring of 2019 they receive a video that incriminates the Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache in what will be subsequently known as the Ibiza Affair, which in turn makes his whole government crumble. The director Daniel Sager documents the day-by-day follow-up of these cases, filled with suspense and hard work; a defense of good journalism in the era of fake news.