Hans-Peter (Julius Weckauf) es un niño regordete de nueve años que crece en un entorno familiar seguro y armónico en la Alemania de 1972. Sin embargo, los problemas aparecen cuando su madre, que era una mujer alegre y vital, cae en una depresión tras sufrir una operación. El padre trabaja sin descanso y le deja a menudo al cuidado de sus abuelos, dos personas de gran corazón y con una fuerte personalidad. Gracias a su amor y dedicación, Peter logra sobrevivir al caos emocional de su interior, utilizando su sentido del humor para aliviar sus penas y hacer que la gente se ría con él.
Lukas Maler is a butcher. Albeit more out of necessity than out of passion: As the “Karajan with the scalpel”, his vocation was always forensic medicine. When he accidently destroyed all evidence against the “24-hour-killer”, his career as a coroner was done for. And not far from it was his marriage with his great love Diana, whom he could not offer anything anymore as a broken man. But Lukas gets a second chance when once again a serial killer terrifies the city because the murders resemble those of the “24-hour-killer”. Diana – who has ascended to head of the forensic institute in the meantime – knows that only the best one can solve the case. But he is not available. And so, she gets the second-best one: the most over-qualified butcher in town…
A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.
