Why do two respectable young men turn to robbery and murder? Based on a true story and reading at times like a court transcript, an unemotional style echoes the futility of the Depression era and the de-humanising response of the Nazis. But the events it chronicles are desperate, and as the pair leave a trail of death and broken lives in their wake we learn as little about them as their victims did. A cautionary tale, but no happy ending.
