Five years ago, the highly paid marketing chief Hartmut Sprenger was fired from his job by the new personnel manager Lorenz Hoffmann - without a word of notice, anonymously, without a personal conversation. But today - Hartmut is a casual jobber and embittered, Lorenz in the middle of the mid-life...
Journalist Dieter Lindemann believes he has found the perfect solution for everyday family and work life with his wife Esther and their two five-year-old twins and three-year-old daughter with the principle of a "50:50 split" of job, housework and childcare. Unfortunately, Dieter realizes too late...
Matthias is hopelessly overwhelmed when suddenly his mother Gisela is at the door. After a thigh fracture she sits in a wheelchair and needs help. When Matthias learns that Gisela has discharged herself from the rehab clinic, he realizes that she needs new life courage and is desperately looking...
After the corpse of the programmer Klaus Pape was found neatly dismantled in a freezer, Commissioner Beate Stein starts the research that will lead her to both the red-light district and the better society of Hamburg.
Medical-technical assistant Marlen and her husband Henning are happily married, but are unable to have children. They decide to adopt a Chilean girl and hopefully set off for Puerto Montt, where the child lives in an orphanage. After some time, when the ice finally breaks between them, a dramatic...
Marvin Feldmann has an unusual job: he works for the "Book of Records". His new order leads the strict and incorruptible record watcher to the Finnish island of Föglö. There is said to be a boy there who can make a stone jump 52 times on the water. Marvin does not have a great desire for the...
Shortly after Michael and Inga Lehnert and their kids Tommy and Tilly move into their new home in the countryside, Michael causes an accident in which the 20 years old Jule is seriously injured. Tormented by this Michael spends more and more time at the side of her bed in hospital, where she lies...
After the death of his spouse Robert Senden,professor of literature in Graz (Austria) has become a solitary man.His housekeeper, the Italian Maria hardly tolerates his pedantry.Suddenly Maria must travel to Italy for family reasons and Robert Senden will take care of Rick, Maria's godchild till...
The once successful director Hans has reached the low point of his career. He finds himself trapped in an acting revenge fantasy spun for him by dead actresses living their lives in hell, at the end of which he dies.
What do you do when love turns into suspicion and mourning turns to fear? When Marian gets word that her brother Michael has committed suicide, she travels to Berlin to sort out his life. Marian reunites with her childhood friend Susanne who offers to help her pack up Michael s things. Together,...