Alone (BNT Tv Series)

Season 1 Story Summary
Anna Martin plays the Main Character of Sara Otto who at the time of the beginning of the story plays a 25 year old girl who had been kidnapped 3 years earlier by an unknown male kidnapper. In the first episode she manages to escape the basement that she bad been kept in for the last amount of time. However she finds herself in the middle of a Forest. She has no idea of where she is. She continues to run away from the cabin, days go by without her finding any civilization. She eventually finds her way to the town of Ohlsbach. She knocks on a strangers door and tries to explain, what she has been through. The family lets her in, and immediately call the police, who arrive around 10 minutes later. Many questions are asked and the woman is asked where she came from. This is when she is informed that she is hundreds of kilometers away from home.

The next episode begins with her travel home on a coach bus heading for Munich. Where she is sleeping and has dreams of her running over and over again from the house. She cant sleep, and has no idea where her family is. She eventually arrives in Munich, where she was told to head to the police station so that officers would be able to assist her. She ends up heading to the station and is once again dragged through her experience over and over again by multiple officers. It horrified her, and made her feel worse. The officers begin to build a case on her story. They begin to build a timeline. The rest of the episode continues with these officers continuing to discover more evidence.

Sara wakes up in her hotel room from a nightmare, as the phone rings she is asked back to the police station. Before she gets their the two police officers have a lead on who could the subject be. Sara arrives at the police station to bring back more memories of the day that her attack happened, the time and where she had been kidnapped. It had happened shortly after she left class on September 19th, police begin to investigate into where her attack happened on campus of her university. Police eventually make headway and begin to move to security archives that the school has of the past 5 years. There however is no record of the attack. You can only see Sara walking past the camera. The police go back a few weeks to people who have walked back this to see if she can remember anything about the attack, or the mans face. She looks at a sheet of paper and ends with a shocked look.

Sara positively identifies the man that had kidnapped her, a public warrant is issued for the man. Meanwhile during the investigation, Sara has been looking for her family and had managed to find her mother on facebook. She looks into where her mother is living since the house she used to live at with her family is empty. She decides to take the train to Nuremberg to see her family. She arrives at the family home and knocks on the front door. Her mother opens, and she looks puzzled, not happy to see her just puzzled. She asks why Sara had come and ends up turning her away. Her mother says that she cant deal with all of this currently. She has to take care of her other daughter Emily. She is battling with cancer. The episode ends with Sara walking back to the train and stopping on the train tracks as the crossings go down.

Sara returns to Munich and begins to search for a job, at multiple restaurants and shops however she is turned down multiple times until she ends up at an old book store in Munich where she meets Daniela the bookkeeper and owner of the store. Daniela asks her if she has any experince and Sara has to be truthful and deny having knowledge of the job, however she says that she loves books and did study Business at University however never finished. Daniela tells her to come back to work on Monday. During the weekend Sara begins to search for a cheap apartment where she could live for now. She finds an apartment that is partially furnished however far away from her new job. She decides to make the sacrifice. She hands over all the money that she had gotten from her mother for "going away." She feels like she hasnt eaten in days. But still has no money to cook. Sara heads to bed for the night.

The episode begins with Sara running and multiple scenes of abuse from her kidnapper of her being raped and abused over and over again. It shows her life when she was living in the basement of her kidnapper, it continues to give more detail into her life at his home. The episode ends with her waking up to a door closing and footsteps and floorboards creaking.

Sara shows up to work early on Monday morning where Daniela already is there. The two get their first chance to talk, where Daniela begins to know more about her life and becomes Sara's first friend after her kidnapping almost 3 years ago. She also invites Sara out for lunch break. The two begin to know more about each other. Sara begins to open up to Daniela and what it was like to go through something like that.

The first court date had been set, and Sara's Kidnapper had been found and positively identified. She has to appear in 2 weeks to her court date. To make sure that her Kidnapper will go away for the rest of his life. She begins to prep her testimony with her lawyers for the rest of the episode.

The episode begins with Sara stepping into the courtroom to giver her testimony and the show makes cuts back and forth to her memories of that time and that specific memory, it shows the horror that she had experienced. She leaves the courtroom after her testomony was given but at that point in time she sees her kidnapper being pulled into the courtroom when she then catches a glimpse of his face and him smiling at her. She collapsed. The next scene opens with her in the hospital. Daniela beside her bed.

Sara is called back into court to hear her testimony again for the judge and she stays to hear about the defense has to say about her case, she thinks it is going well. She spends the night at Daniela's house as she is really nervous and scared of the outcome that could happen tomorrow, and in the following days. As she had just once again become comfortable in her life, she doesn't want it all to be gone once again. She finally feels better than 3 months ago when she had to experience all these things again and was all alone. She now had someone that cared for her.

The case is once again listed in the courtroom and the judges verdict is given that he is not guilty because there is not enough evidence that was provided by the defense. She is gutted, scared and so many things. She leaves the courtroom to walk home, behind her someone walks and says "hey sweetheart" she knows the voice and stops walking. She is shaking and grabs her phone to call Daniela and tells her that she has to leave she cant stay here. Daniela tells her to come to her right away. When she arrives at Danielas home Daniela has packed 3 suitcases and tells Sara I'm coming with you wherever you go. Sara goes to put the two's bags in the car. When she looks and once again sees her abuser. She begins to shake as he places her hand on her. She goes to her bag, where she grabs a pocket knife and ends with her puling it out violently.

The next episode begins with Sara standing in a pool of blood outside as Daniela comes out of the house and yells Sara what did you do? The police are quick to arrive at the Scene. Sara is taken to prison immediately and charged with the murder of the attacker. Daniela makes sure to get her lawyers back to go over to say that Sara was using self defence.

Sara is in prison where the nightmare begins she has never been to prison and the episode pans to her life in the prison system for one week. She is continuously scared and has no idea of what is going on. She continues to have nightmares about the man and him coming back to life.

Sara's court case about her murder comes to light and she is telling the truth about why she did it. She says she would do it again in a heartbreak even if the man was never found guilty of the things that he did to her. She shouldn't have to live with him in the world. The judge agrees with the self defense plead. The case is dismissed and Sara is let go of prison where Daniela is waiting for her. The two head home, where Sara begins to tell her that she has learned.

Sara wants to study to become a lawyer so that the things that happened to her dont need to happen to someone again, or that the process should be easier. The case of kidnapping is such an easy one in her head. Why would someone choose to lie about something like that.

In the last episode Sara begins in her law school class for the year, and begins to learn how the German law system works and functions. She is fascinated and absolutely passionate about what law is about. Her professor is impressed by her and her story, her way to think of the law. The episode however ends with Sara heading home and watching the news like you do as a good law student. She hears about the kidnapping of a 15 year old girl in Nuremberg.