Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book, The Baader Meinhof Complex explores the brutal activities of Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. As the threat of terrorism grows, the head of the German police force Horst Herold contuinues in his relentless pursuit of the young fighters.
