He hasn’t been at the university for three months, Jakob has long since moved out of his student apartment: The German Erasmus student disappears “Without a Trace in Athens”, a breathless search begins: Jakob’s mother, embodied by Silke Bodenbender, is putting her career to the test as a judge risking her life to find her son – played by Tom Gronau – in the juggernaut Athens. When she is abroad she cannot rely on the law or the police. After “Spurless in Marseille”, author Gernot Krää this time embedded the nightmare of a person who disappeared without a trace in a network of smuggling operations and European secret service intrigues. Fast-paced and atmospheric staged by Roland Suso Richter, at the camera: Andrés Marder. Juvenile judge Marlene Neubach believes in strictness. When she visits her son Jakob, currently a student abroad, in Athens, Marlene experiences a surprise: Jakob has disappeared from the face of the earth and is wanted by Inspector Vergas in connection with criminal offenses. The lawyer cannot imagine that her son Jakob could be involved in illegal activities. Can Marlene trust the local police? Together with her acquaintance Alexandros, who offers himself as a lawyer, the judge begins to investigate the juggernaut of the Greek metropolis. —ARD Degeto
