Berlin is a moody and meticulous espionage thriller set in the intelligence circles of New Delhi in 1993, where ‘Berlin’ denotes a café — or a coffee house, as they were once known in the national capital. These cafés located in the city’s diplomatic enclave where winter of 1993 is setting in and the runup to Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s landmark visit to India is taking place. A young deaf-mute man by the name of Ashok (Ishwak Singh) is accused and arrested in connection to an assassination plot. He’s held inside an imposing government building, where he is interpreted by Pushkin (Aparshakti Khurana), a sign language instructor from a local school. Watching over their every move, with unblinking aplomb, is Jagdish (Rahul Bose), a sly, shifty intelligence man who is assigned to unravel the truth in a high-stakes game of deception.