On the day of her greatest honor, the well-known Berlin author Agnes Berg receives the shocking news of the accidental death of her daughter Johanna and her husband. The loss hits her particularly hard: Agnes has been at odds with Johanna since she followed her husband to Mallorca 15 years ago. Concerned about her grandchildren Natascha and Enrico, whom Agnes has never seen before, she sets off for Spain. The reception is cool and unwelcoming. But Agnes is ready to fight for the love of her grandchildren, for which she will make a great sacrifice.
Anna, married to the lawyer Rainer, despite all remorse, begins a liaison with the charming pharmaceutical representative Lars - fortunately the husband of her friend Bettina. Their meeting in a luxury hotel has fatal consequences: Anna and Lars are ear-witnesses of a supposed murder on the head of a call girl ring. Mistakenly, Anne's brother Max was suspected of doing something. Bettina, who has useful contacts due to her thriving wellness center, ensures that Max is released on bail. However, to acquit him they need Anna's statement - which would inevitably reveal her affair with Lars. So there has to be another solution...
Eleven-year-old Nick, son of a wealthy, single-parent architect, is being robbed by street children in Berlin. The blonde hairdresser Anna takes care of him. When Nick learns that she is looking for a partner, he brings his father into play ...
Psychotherapist Katharina welcomes a new patient, Alex Neumann. Soon she also learns to know him on a more private basis. But when two of her colleagues, who had love affairs with their patients, are killed, she fears that Alex might by the murderer. She's torn between love and fear.
The young Laura actually has a bright future ahead of her: She marries Alec Haverstock, the man she loves as she has never loved anyone before. But Laura has no idea that Alec's past has a flaw that will soon overshadow her young happiness. On a trip to see Alec's relatives in Cornwall, she embarks on a search for the ominous traces of the past. And she gets into dramatic entanglements that threaten her life.
In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.
The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his childhood, he hopes to meet again his old friends, especially Fred, Helmuth and Richard, with whom he had a close childhood friendship. When confronted with a murder shortly after his arrival and given the task of investigating it, he has the painful experience that his friends are involved in the case.
The children of Herbert and Hella, two single train conductors, are going to vacation at Baltic Sea. Unfortunately the parents are to busy to go so the oldest sister is in charge.
