THE NETHER

About the show

In order to counteract the total loss of inhibitions on the internet, an agency has taken on the task of investigating particularly suspect cases and examining the increasingly blurred lines between the virtual and the real. Because more and more people are withdrawing into the so-called "Nether", leaving their life in this world behind in the search of freedom. In the course of her investigation, Detective Morris comes across a domain where users can live out their paedophile inclinations in the virtual realm. A transgression? After all, it’s only images, only emotions – and they aren’t real. Or are they? What exactly is reality? In her crime drama Die Netzwelt (The Nether), US-American author Jennifer Haley negotiates the moral dilemmas that we face in our increasingly engineered lives.