Es war einer von uns (2011)

On her way home from a friend’s birthday party, Johanna Schröder is raped. Someone must have slipped her date-rape drugs near the end of the party to incapacitate her. She comes to, dazed, in the woods and makes her way home in a state of shock, where the first thing she does is wash the dirt off her body. Only afterward does she go to the police. As a result, apart from traces of the drugs, there is no usable evidence, which makes the investigation more difficult. Johanna is nevertheless certain that one of her close friends was responsible, and her disappointment is all the greater. From then on, she suffers panic attacks and nightmares and begins to distrust everyone, especially since the investigating detective doubts her account of the rape and accuses Johanna of provoking it. When the police investigation eventually comes to nothing, Johanna is devastated and cannot see how she can go on living happily when she can no longer even trust her friends. She hires a private investigator to find the culprit herself. She also sits down with her friend Leonie Grothe to go over all the suspects and their alibis. It turns out that Leonie’s boyfriend, Björn Reichsmann, does not have a solid alibi either. Leonie is outraged that Johanna could even consider Björn a suspect. But the private investigator also finds evidence pointing to Björn, since he was definitely near the crime scene around the time of the attack. Johanna takes her evidence against Björn Reichsmann to the police, and he is immediately arrested. In light of this, Leonie ends her friendship with Johanna. Her other friends side more with Leonie and Björn, too, leaving Johanna feeling abandoned by everyone. Since the evidence against Björn is insufficient, he is released from pre-trial detention, and the case against him is later dropped. Johanna is utterly devastated. She gets hold of a gun and threatens Björn, but even then he admits to nothing. On the verge of a breakdown, she seeks refuge with her mother, from whom she had hidden the rape out of shame. Her mother urges her to finally seek psychological help. Afterward, Johanna manages, to some extent, to come to terms with what happened. She reconciles with Leonie and Björn by writing them a letter of apology, and begins a genuine friendship with Yanis. Just as she has given up on finding the culprit, she happens to discover photographs in the camera of Björn’s brother Philipp, taken by him on the night of the attack, showing Johanna.