Refusing to wait, Liisa leverages her extensive contacts from her days as a foreign correspondent, embarking on a desperate international mission to find Armin. Her search takes her through the hidden underbelly of cities like Belgrade and Istanbul, where information and people are traded on black markets. She forms a tense alliance with Jonas Berg, a former German secret service contact from her past, but trust proves fragile in this world of espionage and betrayal. As Liisa closes in, she discovers Armin is psychologically scarred by his ordeal, and the lines between allies and enemies are blurred, culminating in a violent confrontation where she must make an impossible choice. Ultimately, Armin makes a profound sacrifice by releasing the data publicly, choosing transparency over control, before he and Liisa seek a new beginning back in the unique isolation of Antarctica, forging a path towards healing and open collaboration.