The rise and fall of a renowned family empire built by a man who survived Auschwitz and dedicated his life to achieving success at any cost. Based on a true story.
In 1945, 18-year old MATTHIAS MEYER returns from Auschwitz, his family murdered and his father’s shop ransacked. A farmer gives him shelter and his pretty daughter Mieke helps to heal Matthias’s wounds. Determined to survive and never to yield to anyone, Matthias and Mieke start a family together and have four sons.
Matthias throws all his passion and energy into becoming a criminal defence lawyer determined to stand up for the underdogs and criminals in society. He is ruthless as a lawyer and a father. By the 1980s, together with his sons, they have a prestigious and notorious law firm working on many lucrative, high-profile cases.
However, the law firm begins to lose huge sums of money as the four sons battle with the influence of criminal friends, fame and drug addiction.
At the end of his life Matthias ponders the meaning of family and what is really important in life.
However, the law firm begins to lose huge sums of money as the four sons battle with the influence of criminal friends, fame and drug addiction. Matthias soon realises that his sons don’t have the stamina and quick wits that helped him survive and fight for success.
At the age of 78, Matthias brings his sons together to speak to them. Unfortunately, he suffers a stroke and the family gathers instead around his sickbed. Will he survive? And what will happen to the failing Meyer family business?
Genre Prime Time Drama Mini Series
Running time 4 x 45'