Alexandra von Schwerin

A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for each other. Svenja is curious and finds herself in a hotel room with Roland, but she does not consummate an affair. A powerful executive at the large bank where Svenja's husband works, Roland is used to getting what he wants. He manipulates the transfer of her husband to Indonesia to replace a recently murdered bank manager. Unaware of Roland’s actions, Svenja now ceases to resist...

It is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen movements. For Resa it is love on first sight when she encounters the handsome and self-confident activist Oskar and is willing to do anything to get his attention. The relationship she dreams of finally comes true, but quickly problems arise. One day Oskar disappears without a trace from her life completely. Years later both meet again - now more mature and with surprising careers...

Anne Harding looks after her small fruit and vegetable farm, her teenage daughter Jamie and her mother Molly, who suffers from arthritis. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally's butler, turns up on her doorstep. The widow wants to lend John to her sister Molly for six weeks. With his discreet manner, John gets to the bottom of the family's little secrets and tries to help them inconspicuously.

When their mother suddenly starts planning her engagement to a woman, Anne and Erik Merz find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of cheese buffets, chocolate fountains, and old feelings.

A 30-year-old missing persons case lands on Thiel's desk: after the disappearance of 15-year-old Sven, his parents received letters from an unknown Chris, who was supposedly travelling with their son. Now, new letters arrive from Chris.

Is there a risk to a child's welfare if a girl is denied the opportunity to learn to hear? Or should parents be free to decide which life is best for their child? A difficult case - even for an experienced judge like Jolanda Helbig.

At his son Konstantin's parents' evening, Philipp Gressmann meets Dolores Sturm - reluctantly, as he emphasizes several times. The woman is completely out of his league. Gressmann, very rich, lives in the posh West End, Dolores in a high-rise estate in the middle of a social hotspot in the city. He is horrified that their sons are supposed to be friends and that his ex-wife even approves of this. On leaving school, Dolores follows in his footsteps in order to escape two very shady characters, Taci and Ali. A turbulent journey through the night begins, in which these very different worlds meet. Gressmann experiences things he would never have dreamed of and has experiences he would rather have done without. His world, so finely ordered, begins to show considerable cracks. To his own surprise, Dr. Gressmann, who is otherwise so detached and coolly calculating, suddenly shows emotion.