Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.
In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Brasch and the exposed Körner are fired.
Cuando una escuela se derrumba con todos los niños dentro, el arquitecto Phillip Braun es juzgado y condenado por deficiencias en el diseño y construcción del edificio, y es enviado a prisión. Su abogado descubre que la verdadera responsabilidad del incidente pudiera ser otra...