In the early 1970s, Otto Schily, Horst Mahler and Hans-Christian Ströbele were young lawyers challenging the German establishment. Later, they would go their separate ways – one became the German interior minister, another a founding member of the Red Army Faction and later a convicted neo-Nazi, and the other a Green Party politician. Birgit Schulz has made a compelling new documentary about these three controversial figures whose biographies reveal more about German history than any textbook.