The Franconian brewer Curt Prank (Mišel Maticevic) stole five host plots at the Oktoberfest in Munich in 1900 with bribery and blackmail in order to erect a gigantic giant tent for six thousand guests. That leads to war with the small traditional Munich breweries, which fear for their existence.
Dogs of Berlin tells the story of two contrasting Berlin police detectives who become a team against their will - and are forced into a territorial battle with the Berlin underworld that confronts them with their own human weaknesses and criminal activities - and into a final decision on which side of the law they're actually on.
The show is based on the best-selling novel Der Nasse Fisch (The Wet Fish) by German writer Volker Kutscher, the first of his Gereon Rath novels. Set in 1920s Berlin, they follow police detective Rath, who is transferred to Berlin and tries to solve crimes in a city torn by social and political upheaval in the years leading up to Adolf Hitler's rise to power.