A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken...
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she opts for radical change and goes into therapy. Although her therapist advises her to keep calm, Karo...
Despite being 45, Werner still likes putting on the style and enjoys being a womanizer, who usually ends up in bed with the female guests that stay at the hostel in which he temporarily works. But then, Werner has to learn to take on responsibility. When he was 18, he and his former girlfriend...
Successful husband, clever children, great job – the lawyer Eva lacks nothing. Except the erotic tingle that she and Richard, a writer have lost in their family life.
As an advisor to the Federal Chancellor, political scientist Sara M. Kardow quickly learns the difference between political theory and practice. The Chancellor hands Sara incriminating evidence. Unexpectedly, she soon has great political influence herself: Nothing less than the fate of the...
After the death of her mother, Bea Kanter leaves her home in Hesse in order to start her studies in Frankfurt. She leaves her father Norbert and her younger sister Conny behind. Thanks to her fellow student Andrea, the shy student quickly finds a connection. She moves into a WG and is confronted...
Like every morning, Linda sits at the breakfast table with her children. But there's a catch: Dad hasn't been sitting at the table with his family for a long time. Instead, Fritz is sleeping in the camper van in the garden. While Linda hopes that the two of them will soon find their way back to...
Jana Friedrich is a young, dedicated doctor from the provinces who is completing her specialist training as a forensic pathologist when she is offered an internship at a renowned Hamburg institute of forensic medicine. A dream comes true for her. An internship with her great role model Kurt Bremer,...
