Christine Kabisch

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and uncovers more than he bargained for.

Anne Petersen returns to the harbor with her catch of fish. There she meets the vet Thomas Krugmann, who has just arrived from Hanover with his children and his girlfriend Sabine. As their car breaks down and they have to go to a garage, they decide to stay in town.

At her boat sale, Anna Williams unexpectedly meets the attractive lawyer Peter Morisson. In their youth, they had a brief, passionate affair in Australia. Since then they have lost sight of each other, but never forgotten each other. Now that they have found each other again, their feelings for each other flare up again. Anna and Peter decide to see each other again. But disaster is brewing in Anna's family. The very young Evita suddenly appears at Anna's mother Louisa Holmes' house. She is the daughter of Louisa's husband Ernest and his young mistress. Shocked by this encounter, Louisa has a car accident and has to be nursed because of her injuries. Her son Winston, Anna's younger brother and "mummy's boy", takes care of everything - as always. But Anna also has to lend a hand, because her mother lives alone on a large estate. This leaves her little time for Peter.

For a lifetime, Hedi Ohlsen subordinated her needs to the family. She raised a child, took care of the house and learned the unloved profession of dental assistant for the sake of her husband Johannes. And although John has left her for a younger one, Hedi still cares for her elderly mother-in-law Agnes. As this now blesses the time and Hedi finally wants to start her own life, suddenly her pregnant daughter Leonie is attacking at the door. She has quit, no money and no father for the child Hedi is to raise for her. Is the dream of late freedom back?

After more than 25 years of happy marriage, Henriette and Werner Wallner have been living apart since a relationship crisis. While Henriette copes well with the separation and flourishes as the self-appointed "manager" of her daughter Elke's flourishing cake store, Werner, who is plagued by heartbreak, does everything he can to win his wife back. However, this is easier said than done, as the handsome and wealthy Saudi Abdul Al Hakim is also courting Henriette by every trick in the book. With this competition, Werner has to work hard to impress "his" Henriette.

Fanny Burkhard is a woman in her prime: attractive, fit and successful at work. Together with Roland Beck, she runs a management consultancy whose specialty is threading hostile company takeovers: large corporations that want to swallow small companies find cunning helpers in the duo. But the collaboration with her ex-boyfriend Roland, who once left her for a younger woman, is noticeably troubling Fanny - she has been suffering from insomnia for three years. She urgently needs distance and a change of scenery.

After seven years of a happy long-distance relationship, Munich gallery owner Katharina and Murnau hotelier Peter finally want to move in together. However, this decision does not seem to be under a good star: Due to water damage, they are unable to move into their new house and are forced to stay with Peter's daughter Verena and her children. When Verena has to travel to visit her husband who has died in an accident in Chile, Peter and Katharina are left with the task of looking after the children.

Nele Ungureit is blindsided: suddenly, after 35 years of marriage, her husband Fred leaves her for his secretary. Nele's ideas of happiness together in old age are suddenly shattered. Even her two grown-up children Susan and Hannes are no support for her in this difficult situation. Nele has great difficulty adjusting to her new single life - until the surprising inheritance of a spacious city villa gives her an idea: together with some senior citizens she has met in the meantime, Nele sets up a shared flat and life together. The only problem is that her son Hannes has his own plans for the villa.