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Once again Bernd Stromberg is terrorizing his staff as an obnoxious boss.
After a 12-year marriage, Markus and Miriam have split up and share custody for their twins Elias and Emma. To be closer to his children, Markus moves in next door - with his new girlfriend Galina.
What happens when “old” and “new work” collide? Barbara Lucke was the grand dame of the works council at Sander Versandhaus for decades. Now, after 30 years, she is unexpectedly voted out of office, loses her leave of absence and has to return to her old job as a former clerk shortly before retirement - in the department of her son Bastian, of all places, who as an up-and-coming department head wants and needs to impress with modern leadership.
Freddy Kleemann from Constance, who has moved to Berlin involuntarily, doesn't get much of the capital city feeling. While his heavily pregnant wife Juliana feels abandoned by him, his business partner Lara wants more commitment from her daycare center. Not only do the children need to accept the innovative concept with quiet rooms more readily, but the parents' tempers are also running high, much to Freddy's chagrin. His father Fritz, who suffers from dementia, worries him greatly. Freddy senses that the joint search for the right facility could be the last conscious father-and-son project. Accordingly, he wants to take his time and savor the intense moments. Freddy's mother-in-law Regina is supposed to provide relief for the Kleemanns. She likes to be there for others, but would like to be pampered again herself. Perhaps a new acquaintance would do her good? That's what her grandchildren Zoë and Niko think when they secretly register their grandma on a dating platform...
Freddy and his wife Juliana leave the comfort zone of Constance and move to Berlin. With Grandpa Fritz in tow, the Kleemanns move in with Grandma Regina. Unlike his sister Zoe, little Niko is happy to be living with his grandparents. While Freddy and his trusted colleague Lara finally want to implement their own concept as daycare center managers, Juliana sees an unexpected stop sign in her career as a doctor: she is unplanned pregnant! Now a difficult life decision has to be made: a third child does not fit into the current family and couple concept of two full-time professionals.
While his wife Juliana commutes to Zurich as a doctor, Freddy is at home in Constance looking after their 13-year-old daughter Zoë and little Niko. Freddy believes that dropping out of medical school to work as a nursery teacher is the best decision of his life. When Juliana is offered the position of head of pediatric oncology, she wants to move to Zurich with the whole family. For her, this would mean an end to the exhausting commute, finally more time with her family and a higher income. Freddy, however, doesn't want to leave his familiar surroundings. Even he is not entirely without ambition in his poorly paid job, because Freddy has his own educational ideas - and has the prospect.
There are fights, the taker qualities decide. Oliver Wnuk lets himself into a painful test in the lead role of the comedy "My father-in-law, the camper": To get his pregnant girlfriend's hand, he has to assert himself against her papa Hartmut, who openly wants someone else to be his bridegroom. Henning Baum embodies a grandiose macho patriarch who comes up with a few mean things to get rid of the unloved candidate.
Like every year, Maike and her husband Sören invite family and friends over for New Year's Eve. This time, however, the raclette dinner turns out differently than the meticulously planned Maike had hoped: In addition to the cheese, all three couples sitting at the table reveal hard-to-digest truths and intimate secrets.
