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1942 in occupied La Rochelle. As the crew of U-Boat 612 prepare to head out on their mission, commander Hoffmann has to step up; it is his first mission as Kaleu and he is quite young to head a boat. The situation intensifies, since his first 1st Watch Officer Tennstedt believes that he is the better commander. At the same time a young woman, Simone, returns to her work as an interpreter on the military base. Her brother, Frank, just came back from a mission, hoping to stay in La Rochelle. In an accident on U-612 a crew member is injured and Frank has to take over. He leaves La Rochelle entrusting Simone with a mission and a deadly secret. Simone becomes entangled between the French Resistance and the German Naval Intelligence Officer Forster. While trying to protect her brother, new orders send U-612 to a highly political, secretive exchange of prisoners on high sea. With the intensity of the confined space the U-boat is a floating hotbed of psychodrama, tossing and diving amid the blackness of the North Atlantic; 42 men cooped up in an ‘Iron Coffin’, their only real outlet is the sanctioned violence of war. In the furnace of U-boat life superstition is rife, small emotional triggers are magnified into neuroses, the pettiest of disputes can burst into violent conflict and individual weaknesses are magnified into destructive impulses. But it’s also a place where humanity still flickers and where a spiritual dimension can be found in the smallest gestures of kindness.The enemy, fate and their brutal surroundings conspire against the crew.Paralleled to this Simone and other characters in La Rochelle, left behind by crew members, will battle with questions of morality, identity and purpose.And when, at the end of our series, the returning U-612 itself becomes the focus of the deadly powers in La Rochelle, Simone must make life or death decisions for herself and the men we’ve followed to hell and back for eight episodes. |