At Eckle's grocery store in Freiburg, everything has been the same for decades. An ideal workplace for sales clerk Susanne, who doesn't like change. But then the old Eckle dies and his son Christian wants to turn the old store into a delicatessen. No wonder he keeps clashing with Susanne. Neither...
The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longingly at the well in the garden of the rich merchant Machmud, which is full to the brim. One day, Hassan's parrot sits on the edge of the well and is attacked by Machmud's guard dog. To save his only...
A refugee from a Nazi concentration camp is discovered by some boys in WWII Berlin. They provide him with food and help him to continue his flight. Later one of the boys, the son of a communist, is charged with theft, arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
In 2015: 16-year-old Karl was adopted by Anna and Rasmus. Now he finally wants to find out more about his "real" parents. On his search, he learns a lot about his mysterious past.
