Continuing the Screen Two series of dramas is David Pirie's futuristic thriller starring Trevor Eve Germany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman, whose body has been slashed from head to foot. On the ground beside her are the words in Arabic: "We are crossing. "As the threat grows of a mass exodus of refugees caused by civil war in Russia, Fischer sets out on a hazardous search for the truth with refugee Anna.
Acting
Trevor Eve's exhausted humanity in a dehumanizing system
Production
Gritty Germany-shot locations that outclass the budget
Writing
Pirie's script trusts you to connect the dots
Director
Ben Bolt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1994, this predicted 2000s refugee crises with eerie precision—Pirie wrote it after reporting on Yugoslavia's collapse.
Screen Two was BBC2's prestige drama slot; this was its rare sci-fi entry, buried in Easter scheduling and largely forgotten.
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