The first programme tells the story of Silke Maier-Witt, for 15 years one of Europe's most wanted women. Her middle class family were devastated when they discovered her role in the brutal terrorist group, the Red Army Faction. Wanted for murder, she fled to East Germany where, with a new face and identity, she received protection from the Stasi secret police. Only when the Berlin wall came down was Maier-Witt arrested when she chose to betray her former terrorist comrades and tell her story.