Doctor Nina falls in love with the charismatic architect Mark, who was imprisoned for manslaughter. Her neighbor Melanie, unlike her husband, is thrilled with Mark. But one day Melanie disappeared without a trace.
Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusations and recriminations at each other, Anja allegedly surfaces in Spain, raising a strange suspicion against Lavinia.
Franziska Dreyer and Sebastian Pauli are a happy couple. When one day the police arrest her boyfriend on suspicion of murder, Franziska assumes it's a mistake. But in a trial marked by circumstantial evidence, Sebastian is tried, convicted and sentenced to life. Franziska believes he's innocent and fights to get him released. This puzzles her parents and friends who advise her to cut all ties to him. Her reaction is to marry Sebastian in prison. Then Franziska discovers completely unknown sides to her husband and now doesn't know who or what to believe any more.
Throughout her life Marga has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia. But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased husband Juris. She becomes increasingly lost in her forgetfulness and suddenly demands, like a child, gentleness. It’s an uncomfortable situation for Sofia who must now take care of her mother. Sofia’s growing realization that Marga’s past also affects her own gives Sofia impetus to make a sudden journey with her mother to Riga. This is where Marga grew up and where she married Juris. But the more Sofia learns about her mothers, the less clear it becomes who she herself is.
어느날 갑자기… 속세로 내몰린(?) 세 명의 수도사… 교회로부터 파문 당하고 단 2개의 수도원만이 명맥을 유지하고 ‘칸토리안교단’. 그 중 하나인 독일 ‘아우스부르크 수도원’에는 각자 뚜렷한 개성으로 무장하고 있는 4명의 수도사가 있다. 고지식하고 세상물정 모르는 원장신부, 젊었을 때 놀아본 경력이 있으나 현재는 높은 학구열로 무장한 ‘벤노’, 확고부동의 세가지 유머로 단단히 무장한 시골 농부 스타일의 ‘타실로’, 그리고 아기 때부터 수도원에서 자란 순수한 미소년 ‘아르보’가 그들이다. 그러나 후원자가 후원을 거부하고, 원장신부의 갑작스런 사망으로 평화롭던 수도원은 위기에 봉착하게 되고, 3명의 수도사들은 원장신부의 유언에 따라 교단의 보물인 규범집을 들고 이탈리아의 ‘칸토리안 수도원’을 향해 험난한 여정을 시작한다. 오랫동안 속세와는 담을 쌓고 살아온 순진무구한 수도사들에게 세상 밖으로의 여행은 그리 만만한 것이 아니다.
