11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - who happens to be a dwarf, even shorter than Michi is, the opposite of his idea of manliness and strength. When the kids find out, Michi's life becomes hell and he flees. With nowhere to go, he moves in with Tom, who is new to this fatherhood thing, while Michi tried to hide his embarrassment and shame from his fellow school kids. This forces Tom, who had coped well till now, to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers, until their relationship is again suddenly put to the hard test...
Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?
Nikolas, de nove anos, está desaparecido há dias. A psicóloga criminal Claudia Meinert percebe contradições em sua conversa com os pais da criança desaparecida. Em particular, a mãe de Nikolas parece estar escondendo alguma coisa. Quando um vídeo das superfícies de Nikolas desaparecidas, mostrando-o amarrado em um porão, a trilha leva à sua escola. Leon e Mathilda, de treze anos, consideram o psicólogo conspícuo e provocador. Pouco depois, Meinert encontra as crianças com os pais de Nikolas na piscina local e suas suspeitas são confirmadas: os pais estão enredados em um jogo insidioso entre pai e mãe e filho com os possíveis suspeitos Leon e Mathilda. Agora cabe à psicóloga resolver o mistério sombrio do desaparecimento de Nikolas e salvar a criança.
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
