A series of explosions carried out by an oil drilling platform in the North Sea causes little earthquakes and alarm the population of coastal areas closest to the epicenter.
The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his...
Early in the morning, Tom Wesnik is driving home from a party with his wife Esther. At the entrance to their home village of Sarezin, they are confronted by an unsettling sight: A police roadblock blocks their way, patrol cars and fire engines line the main road, three coffins are being carried out...
Maren Hilbert is the new teacher at the private elite school Sophienbund. She soon realizes that the school, which looks so perfect on the outside, is in a pretty bad state on the inside. When a killing spree is announced, Maren knows she has to act. But neither the principal nor her colleagues...
Star photographer Christoph Baumgartner and his neighbor Kurt Schollwer, a former record-breaking swimmer, are intimate enemies. The two fight each other tooth and nail. Their petty war is abruptly interrupted when the two discover an abandoned baby on their doorstep. At first, each suspects the...
Their mother has died. Siblings Susanne and Thomas are shocked. And overwhelmed. Little by little, it dawns on them that their grumpy father has long been unable to move without help. Full of remorse, Susanne and Thomas search for a solution that is affordable - and leaves the old man with his...
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
