Matthiesens Töchter

François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam.

The journalist Dieter Lindemann and the lawyer Esther have finally become parents - twins. But who stays at home now? Esther has just taken over the management of her law firm. So Dieter stays at home and is looking forward to the time out: sleeping late in the morning, having a leisurely breakfast and playing with the twins in the afternoon. Puppy cake! Balancing career and fatherhood turns into a balancing act between career women and cake batter.

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Journalist Dieter Lindemann believes he has found the perfect solution for everyday family and work life with his wife Esther and their two five-year-old twins and three-year-old daughter with the principle of a "50:50 split" of job, housework and childcare. Unfortunately, Dieter realizes too late that they have forgotten to plan for each other as a couple, have grown apart in the stress of everyday life and only see each other when they hand over the children. That's why he is blindsided when Esther confesses that she has fallen in love with her attractive Danish lawyer colleague Lars Knudsen.

Ellen Bouché travels to Antwerp to face a terrible truth: Her daughter Sarah lies in the morgue, dead from a fatal drug cocktail of crystal meth and heroin. The stunned mother is assisted by her friend Maggie, whom Ellen knows from her student days in the Belgian port city. A few hours after seeing Sarah's body, Ellen receives an unimaginable text message in the middle of the night: it is an emergency call from her daughter, which arrived two days after the time of death! Ellen refuses to believe the obvious explanation that it is just an unusual delay in transmission. Her maternal instinct immediately kicks in. In fact, something unimaginable seems to be going on, because the student's body has suddenly disappeared and evidence of a connection to a secret voodoo cult is found in her apartment.

After some back and forth are graphic designers Jan Börner can finally bring himself and his wife Anne and their children Lisa and Luke a terraced house in a modern housing estate to relate. But a short time later reveal the dark side of this decision. In the midst of gossiping settlement residents privacy is nil. To make matters worse, the busy neighbors feel even called to overwhelm Jan and Anne with supposedly helpful advice for running the household and raising children. The tense atmosphere in the family finally reached a new climax when one day Jan's ex-girlfriend Maren moves into the house next door ...

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