LOGLINE

In Bolivia, a young German woman joins the guerrillas and fights against everything her father stands for. She becomes an assassin and, as "Che Guevara’s Avenger", an icon of the resistance. But her struggle for freedom remains, until the very end, a battle with her father, from whom she can never completely break free.

SYNOPSIS

Bolivia, 1954: 17-year-old Monika shoots turkeys and stands proudly as a camera assistant next to her father Hans in the rainforest. But then her mother dies, and just three months later Hans marries his mistress. Monika flees into a hasty marriage, gets divorced against all conventions and returns to La Paz. There she gets involved in left-wing circles and realizes that her father's Nazi past – as a former war correspondent and Leni Riefenstahl's cameraman – is by no means history. Hans remains a reluctant supporter of the Bolivian dictatorship and Monika joins the guerrilla movement. 
But after her lover and guerrilla leader Inti Peredo is tortured to death, Monika asks Hans, of all people, for help: he is to provide his lonely farm as a hiding place for the guerrillas. Hans, however, cannot bring himself to do so. For Monika, this is the final step towards radicalization. She trains as an assassin in Cuba and in 1971 shoots Roberto Quintanilla, the man who ordered the murders of Guevara and Peredo. In her Chilean hideout, she plans her next coup: the kidnapping of “Uncle Klaus”, a family friend – in reality the Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon”. Monika contacts her father again, this time to spy on the Nazi sphere around him.

A series about a complex daughter-father relationship, female militancy – and a woman who has stopped trying to please.
Based on the lives of Monika and Hans Ertl.