Detective Chief Inspector Jens Stellbrink (Devid Striesow) is confronted with a particularly tricky case. And that literally. Because an autopiloted vehicle has sped off a company's parking deck and the body of the company's legal counsel is now in the car. At first everything looks like suicide. But then Stellbrink learns that the computers of the company that specializes in collecting digital data are in the samenight and the missing data concern the self-driving car - "Mord Ex Machina" tells in an oppressive way about the abysses that digital technology entails and raises the current question of how much freedom the technical revolution of the Internet gives us brings and when it turns into its opposite. A topic that is also currently occupying industry in Saarland.