Paula Essam

The pensioner Mr. Kummer is desperate to attend a Christmas party of his estranged family, who have invited him by surprise. A story about the loss of illusion.

Beatrice, a gynecologist seeking escape in Berlin’s club scene, and Alex, a defiant trans club manager juggling parenthood and protest, begin to fight for the right to their bodies and discover unexpected support in each other while facing difficulties of what is expected of them. Although they could not be more different, a close friendship develops between them, which soon ends up in a new understanding of what family means.

Silvia (55) returns to her office job at a pharmaceutical company after a long illness. While she is happy to see her colleagues again, she discovers that her Login no longer works - Silvia is no longer in the system.

High school graduate Max Höfel arrives at the Fuchs & Kilali detective agency distraught: his girlfriend Leonie has been run over by a car and the police believe it was a hit-and-run accident. Max, on the other hand, believes it was murder and hires the two detectives to find the culprit. Leonie used to work in Max's uncle Lukas Bender's amusement arcade. Anne and Youssef find out that dirty mafia money is laundered there. When a large sum of money is found in Leonie's estate, Inspector Eisner is also convinced that a violent crime has been committed. Did Leonie want to expose her employer - is that why she had to die? Max's mother Marina protects her brother Lukas. He would never be capable of murder! A deep rift runs through the Höfel family, behind whose façade Anne and Youssef have to look in order to finally solve the case.

A dead biology graduate, a billionaire investor, a mysterious house and a rare beetle keep detectives Burkhard "Butsch" Schulz and Viola Delbrück busy this time as they finally investigate side by side again.

Klaus Burg and his 18-year-old daughter Alina live in the witness protection program and have built up a new, modest existence in a remote fishing village in Iceland.

In a utopian future free of wars, hier­archies and discrimination, a young Black woman must decide whether to inherit or erase the trauma of her ancestors.

After the separation, Julia and Robert try "nesting". But what initially seems good for the children only makes things more complicated for the whole family. Twelve-year-old Marie and seven-year-old Maxi continue to live in the house, while the parents take turns every week. But Robert's only aim with his proposal is to save the house and buy time for Julia to finally come to her senses. Julia, however, doesn't think much of waiting around.