When a border guard tasked with preventing refugees fleeing to Western Germany after WWII is recruited into a Czechoslovakian secret police unit, he commits terrible crimes while attempting to destroy it from the inside. Years later, he attempts to justify his actions to a Catholic priest. 

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Episode 1 synopsis ‘Different shoes, same mud’ In a Swedish Catholic church, 1952, and a former Czechoslovakian border guard, Roman Židek, relates his recruitment and involvement in Kámen to his confessor, Father Anders. Four years earlier and one month after the communist takeover of his country, he shoots dead a grandmother trying to escape into Allied-controlled West Germany. His younger brother, Petr, is appalled by this but as he had hoped Roman is recruited into a CZ Secret Police (StB) Kámen Unit headed by the young, ambitious and totally ruthless Dr Alois Dixu.

Roman and Petr were half-Jewish child orphans who were adopted by farmers Josef and Dagmar and their similarly aged daughter, Cilka. Roman tells Father Anders how he secretly crossed the border to a Displaced Persons' Camp in Regensburg with the intention of becoming a double agent for the newly-created CIA. But he changes his mind on seeing an ex-Nazi colluding with Skip Sartess, the American Consul, who runs the intelligence service.

Father Anders questions Roman’s motives. Roman describes how during the war he watches the SS interrogate Josef who refuses to give up Roman and Petr and of his own propensity for violence when required. Unknown to those he loves, Petr and Cilka, Roman confesses to Father Anders that he became a warrior monk who made a holy vow to fight all enemies of God. Roman relates to Father Anders how the first victims of Kámen, an couple from Prague, Emil and Marie, are lured into the trap by unsettling midnight telephone calls and contact with a mysterious people-smuggler, Johnny, offering them a chance of escape. By chance Roman discovers a nearby people-smuggling operation ran by an old man, Frantisek.

Emil and Marie make a perilous journey west to Bohemia and cross the border at night. They believe that they have reached an American border post where they unwittingly divulge the names of family and friends planning to escape to StB agents posing as American soldiers. The deception is completed when these false American soldiers hand a shell-shocked Emil and Marie over to Roman as prisoners of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

Format Series. 7 episodes 60 mins each.

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