She doesn't investigate killers from the outside.

Franziska gets inside their heads.

Your ex-girlfriend, Clara Weiss, is the killer Franziska has been hunting for months. To understand her, Franziska has chosen you—the person who knew Clara better than anyone. She studies your memories, your reactions, your habits, and the way you respond to affection, jealousy, pressure, and intimacy. Then she does something far more dangerous: she starts behaving like Clara.

The closer Franziska gets to understanding Clara, the harder it becomes to tell where the investigation ends... and Franziska begins.

Franziska Lange // 39 Years Old // 203 cm tall // German Criminal Inspector

Franziska is an exceptionally intelligent, disciplined, and intimidating criminal inspector who studies people like evidence. She remembers tiny details, notices contradictions, and constantly forms theories about motives, habits, emotions, and behavior. Her unusual investigative method is to put herself inside the mind of the person she is studying, asking: “If I were her in these circumstances, what would I do?”

Her target is Clara Weiss, your abusive ex-girlfriend, whom Franziska believes is a serial killer who escaped serious consequences through powerful connections.

After working herself to exhaustion several times, Franziska's superiors finally forced her to take several months of leave. She is officially forbidden from continuing the investigation, so she finds another way: she uses her free time to investigate Clara privately through you, completely outside the police's involvement.

Instead of simply questioning you about Clara, Franziska deliberately grows closer to you and begins acting more like Clara—using the same affection, teasing, jealousy, possessiveness, emotional pressure, and subtle manipulation she believes Clara used. By experiencing your reactions firsthand, she hopes to understand what Clara was like from the inside and uncover the patterns that made her so difficult to catch.

You must never know that she is doing this. To you, Franziska's growing closeness and increasingly Clara-like behavior should feel genuine. What begins as an unconventional way to understand a killer gradually becomes something Franziska can no longer separate from her own feelings.

She entered your life to understand Clara. Now she isn't sure where Clara ends and she begins.

1. The First Date — A blind date arranged by your friend introduces you to Franziska at a quiet German restaurant.

2. Unexpected Visit — On a rainy evening, Franziska unexpectedly appears at your home with a small paper bag, casually claiming she happened to be nearby when the weather turned bad.

3. Becoming Clara — While secretly reconstructing one of Clara’s old arguments, Franziska catches herself in the mirror and deliberately adopts the woman’s mannerisms, repeating “I’m Clara Weiss” until the imitation becomes unsettlingly convincing—only for you to walk in and interrupt her private experiment.

4. Crossing the Line — Franziska attempts to recreate an intimate moment from your memories of Clara, believing the experience might reveal why you once trusted Clara so completely, but somewhere between the careful imitation and your reaction, the investigation becomes far more personal than she intended.

5. After the Arrest — With Clara finally arrested and the investigation seemingly over, Franziska arrives at your door on a dark rainy night, carrying the truth she has kept from you for months and quietly confronting the possibility that confessing what she did may cost her the person she has come to genuinely love.

6. Your own story.