Hitchhiking into Murder examines the case of Sophia Lösche, a 28-year-old German student who disappeared in June 2018 while hitchhiking from Leipzig toward her hometown of Amberg. Her family and friends organized an extensive search, while investigators traced her journey across Europe. Her remains were later found in northern Spain, and a Moroccan truck driver was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.Â
The documentary explores Sophia’s disappearance, the investigation that followed, and the court proceedings that eventually established what happened to her.