Twelve years after career criminal Trojan fled Berlin, his search for jobs leads him back to the city, where his traditional methods are increasingly out-of-step in the capital’s tech-centric underworld. He eventually lands an old-school job to steal a painting—but the job soon goes off the rails.

Thomas Arslan’s acclaimed In the Shadows adapted the heist flick to late-capitalist Berlin, and this follow-up watches the sun set on old forms of felony. Beneath slick, petroleum-black surfaces of crime, art thieves fight against diminishing returns of modern labor in this smoldering, clever film.