Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The widowed, free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar also houses refugees in his home. These are a special thorn in Karl's side.
Enquanto um avião de grande porte é sequestrado por terroristas em um voo de Berlim para Paris e um grupo de jovens busca invadir a cabine da aeronave. O piloto, contra o tempo, tenta negociar uma possível rendição com o sequestrador.
O jovem advogado Caspar Leinen é contratado para fazer a defesa de um caso incomum: Fabrizio Collini, um trabalhador sem precedentes criminais desde 1970 que, supostamente, assassinou o rico industrial Hans Meyer em uma suíte de hotel em Berlim. Enfrentando um rival que nunca perde casos, Caspar se envolve em um dos maiores escândalos judiciais da história alemã e oculta uma verdade que pode mudar tudo.
Young high school teacher Michael Gewa receives a mysterious message - a novel company has bought his internet and cell phone data and issues him a rating based on his digital footprint. After he turns down the offer to keep the rating private in exchange for a monthly fee, things escalate quickly. He finds himself having to fight for his reputation and the damaged trust in him among friends, colleagues and students.