Escape is a billion-dollar business for the people smugglers. They cross border fences with false passports and on dangerous routes. With an undercover investigator, ‘Die Spur’ gives exclusive insights into the unscrupulous world of the human trafficking mafia.
A trip across the border to Europe costs: the people smugglers demand between five and six thousand euros from the refugees. But who are the people who make money from the misery of others? The documentary 'Die Spur' gets closer to them than any television team has ever managed before.
Undercover investigator Tamer Bakiner has immersed himself in the world of human traffickers for months. He has managed to gain the trust of the smugglers and those behind them through a legend. They take him to the border and show him how they bring refugees over the fence from Serbia to Hungary at dawn and then to Germany. The authors Lukas Augustin and Vanessa Schlesier accompany him on his journey, research who the people behind the smuggling mafia are and confront Interior Minister Nancy Faeser with the question of whether border controls and harsher punishments are long-term solutions
The film offers a unique insight into the world of the smuggling mafia and reveals how unscrupulous the gangs' business is.
