Begins in April 1929 in Berlin, a city defined by "Golden Twenties" glamour clashing with crushing poverty, political extremism, and organized crime.

The show follows , a police inspector transferred from Cologne to Berlin, and Charlotte Ritter , an ambitious police clerk with dreams of becoming the city's first female homicide detective.

Adapted from the bestselling Gereon Rath novels by Volker Kutscher , including titles like Babylon Berlin , The Silent Death , and Goldstein .

Rath is initially sent on a secret mission to dismantle a pornographic extortion ring, but he and Ritter soon find themselves entangled in a web of Soviet gold, communist protests, and the ominous rise of National Socialism.

Babylon Berlin is a critically acclaimed German neo-noir series that plunges viewers into the hedonistic and politically volatile world of the during the late 1920s. Series Overview