The story of the fascist conman Fritz Julius Kuhn is as unknown as it is terrifying: Kuhn is a German immigrant who pretends to be Hitler’s deputy in the USA during the 1930s. He is at the top of the German-American Bund, a fascist organization of Americans of German origin. The followers of this association march in goose-step with swastika flags and in Nazi-uniforms thru New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. They gather in thousands in stadiums and sing the Horst-Wessel-song.
Jakob Fabian, um jovem publicitário, passa seus dias em uma empresa de cigarros e suas noites vagando pelas ruas de Berlim, quando se apaixona por Cornelia, uma bela atriz. Quando a carreira dela floresce, as perspectivas de futuro diminuem em meio ao hedonismo crepuscular da Alemanha pré-nazista.
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know is that, while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.
Jan meets Judith by accident and realizes that she is the woman who was supposed to have shot and killed his father, who worked as a security officer at the bank.
Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty Lea from next door. He is in his early 20s, but still thinks and feels like a child - right? After his arrest, Simon finds a sex booklet belongs to him that the bus driver Bacher sold him. Matis actually makes a confession, to which, however, the psychologist Benjamin doubts. In the meantime, mother Maria is investigating on her own. The thriller gradually increases its level and excitement.
Nos anos 80, dois estivadores da Alemanha Oriental, Cornelis e Andreas, sonham um sonho impossível: deixar o país. Para poder fugir pelo mar, eles precisam entregar um de seus colegas para a polícia do Estado. O plano muda quando Cornelis se apaixona por uma jovem vietnamita chamada Phuong Mai.