After the death of her husband, the attractive Eva takes refuge in her self-imposed loneliness and becomes known as a bitch. After a burglary in her picture frame store, she meets detective inspector Ferdinand Rixen. At the same time, master painter Harry Stockert enters her life. The two men cause...
After the death of her husband, the well-off widow Juliane Willbrand sinks into a great void. Her efforts to return to her old job as a librarian after twenty years prove futile until prison warden Schober gives her a chance. The challenge as head of the prison library gives Juliane energy and new...
Berlin, 1943, during World War II. Martha Liebermann, an elderly upper-class Jewish woman, faces the decision of her life: should the widow of the world-famous and revered painter Max Liebermann continue to try to obtain an exit permit from the Nazis or, with the help of a resistance group, should...
Franziska only wants the best for her bright grandson Tobias. That's why the retired teacher is very worried when the boy starts to drop off at school. His mother Silke, a hands-on woman from a modest background, is not worried. She doesn't want to raise Tobias to be a bookworm anyway, but is...
Petra Winter, the notorious headmistress of Berlin's Fröbel-Gymnasium, is known for her strictness and harsh treatment of the school administration. Even the friendly janitor Christian Brenner has a hard time with the principal's uptight manner. To get one over on the hated Ms. Winter, her...
Shortly before his Caribbean vacation, archaeologist Ludwig leaves his Elisa behind for an excavation in the Teutoburg Forest. However, the frustrated wife also makes a discovery: Ludwig's Italian colleague Carlo also knows a lot about digging...
Ruth is an attractive, independent woman in her early 50s who has always lived for her daughter. But Lea, now in her mid-20s, is starting to break away from her dominant mother. In this difficult and conflicting time between mother and daughter, Lea suddenly falls ill with multiple sclerosis. In...
The divorced florist Maria falls in love with the fated Holger, whose little son was killed two years ago in an accident with a driver's escape. Maria also has a son: the now-grown Niklas, a very talented pianist who has a great career in the eyes of his proud mother. But appearances are deceptive:...
The young student Hanna, on the surface a typical representative of her generation, suffers from a special form of schizophrenia, hebephrenia. In her own world of perception, oscillating between madness and the search for truth, she desperately searches for personal happiness, but also for poetry...
Editor Katharina Faber wants to move to Venice. But unfortunately she misses her flight because of the building work in the house next door. Before she can get on the next plane, her grown-up children are at the door and urgently need her help. Son Uli has dropped out of school and daughter Lisa,...
Three seasoned women, successful and in the prime of their years, have had enough of the masters of creation. Maria finally leaves her husband Josef, to whom she led the common starred restaurant in Vienna in spite of his affairs during the marriage. The family judge Steffi wants to find a new...
Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigger plans: She wants to become a clinic director. She pursues this career goal with ambition. But she has lost sight of the important things in life. Sonja gradually realizes this when she...
Paula, the wife of a busy estate agent, wants to help her sister's orphaned daughter Maggie restructure a debt-ridden inn after the unexpected death of her sister. In doing so, she gets in the way of her own husband, who wants to sell the property behind her back to a group of investors together...
