When David visits his family for Christmas, a family encounter of an especially evil kind awaits him. Ironically on Christmas Eve, he realizes that his family has abandoned all sense of brotherly love and liberal values. They are afraid. Afraid of change, afraid that something will be taken away from them. David can’t handle the latent racist talk and shirtfronts his parents. The fact that his father, the very man he has always looked up to, is now spewing right-wing propaganda, shocks him. David cannot simply ignore it.
Kurt Barnert es un joven estudiante de arte en la Alemania del Este. Está enamorado de su compañera de clase, Ellie. El padre de ella, el Professor Seeband, un famoso médico, no aprueba la relación de su hija y está decidido a destruirla. Lo que ninguno de ellos sabe es que sus vidas están conectadas por un terrible crimen cometido hace décadas.
Luisa loves her teaching profession and is popular with her students because of her fresh teaching methods. But shortly after she refused to give a student a high school recommendation, a nude photo of her appears on her school's website. Her life becomes a gauntlet. Nowhere is she safe from sexual reprisals, her elementary school leaves her on leave and the police investigation leads nowhere. Then the young woman disappears. Traces in her house indicate a violent crime. Was Luisa the murder victim after the infamous slander?
