Senem
When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in the videos – whom he thought long dead. He tries everything to get in contact, to save his sister, to inform the public about this brutal war. And loses himself.
Berivan
Rojda, nativa do Curdistão iraquiano e soldado do exército alemão, viaja para um campo de refugiados na Grécia onde consegue encontrar sua mãe, que tem más notícias sobre sua irmã Dilan.
Lamia
Bahar é a comandante das Filhas do Sol, um batalhão composto apenas por mulheres curdas que atua ofensivamente na guerra do país. Ela e as suas soldadas estão prestes a entrar na cidade de Gordyene, local onde Bahar foi capturada uma vez no passado. Mathilde é uma jornalista francesa que está acompanhando o batalhão durante o ataque. O encontro entre as duas mulheres, dentro do cenário caótico que as cercam, irá mudar a vida de ambas permanentemente.
Rezeptionistin
Berlin widower Paul Krüger, a retired ex-GDR stone mason (66), hates foreigner immigrants, especially Muslims. When his beloved, doting granddaughter Annie plans to marry Deniz, an ambitious student and waiter in Ankara who needs a visa for Germany, backward Paul and his buddy, publican Karin, go on Turkish 'holiday' so he can talk her out of it. But Deniz proves her only choice and probably a right one, even if countrymen and family win Paul's heart, as well as a resourceful preteen-thief, who proves an orphaned Syrian refugee. Paul even promises to plead with his counterpart, Deniz's family patriarch, who opposes him marrying a Christian infidel at pain of expulsion from the close clan.
Stine
In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...
