Hard-hitting adaptation of Heinrich Boll's novel about the terrifying power and ruthlessness of the press. At a party, the timid, unpolitical Katharina meets a man, likes him, and sleeps with him, totally unaware of his terrorist status. Next morning, the man just a memory, her life is changed forever when armed police arrive and arrest her. But the nightmare's just beginning, as the gutter press unleash a relentless character assassination and smear campaign against the wretched woman. Intelligent, engrossing and thought-provoking.