The film accompanies a team of journalists during more than a year of research. Anna Breithausen, Marvin Milatz, Uwe Wichert, Alexander Tieg and Dennis Leiffels asked themselves the question of who determines or would like to determine the political discourse in Germany in the social networks. They come across a movement whose strategy could be the so-called "infowar" and paints a bleak picture of Germany. Using data, they decipher mechanisms of this movement and pursue the question: What drives these people?
The journalists become conspiracy theorists themselves, learn what connects these people, meet alternative media makers, learn why social platform operators enable this development and are recruited by a Swiss sect. You will experience for yourself how people are first made to fear for their lives and are then pulled into a whirlpool of half-truths from which they can no longer escape.
Why should we all be interested in this? This year will turn into hate and agitation, violence and terror. First the Hessian district president Walter Lübcke is shot by a neo-Nazi, then the right-wing motivated attack in Halle. What is this infowar? Who is behind it? And what does it do to us?