BROTHERS

A destructive accident at its main power-station has brought Cyprus to its knees triggering fierce rioting, demonstrations and an unprecedented energy crisis. A rioter, SEMELI, discovers a dead body inside the dividing no man’s land. Two detectives from either side contest the jurisdiction of the case. The high-profile family of PETER KOLLMAN, the victim, with his father being a leading political figure in Germany, brings unprecedented media attention and international exposure which forces them to agree to collaborate. By the time they concede to a functioning framework under a United Nations mandate, the body disappears from the morgue. The two detectives are haunted by their respective community’s bloody pasts and under intense pressure from their friends and family who oppose their participation in the bi-communal investigation. Struggling with deep-rooted nationalistic emotions, they miraculously make their first breakthrough when they retrieve Peter’s body. The consequent autopsy reveals respiratory failure by intense exposure to ammonium nitrate. Meanwhile, a young woman, SOPHIE, an auditor for the anti-fraud division of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, discovers suspect handlings of funds invested into the victim’s permaculture NGO in Cyprus. She finds that the EU banned ammonium nitrate, used in the offshore drilling for natural gas, had been illegally produced by a company affiliated to Peter, operating on the illegal Turkish occupied part of the island.