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A body is found in a canal on the Danish border. The woman was murdered in the same way as three before her. Special investigator Gloria Acheampong is sent to the province to take on the case.
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.
After her daughter's fatal accident at a busy intersection, Jenni is confronted with videos on the web of Mia dying. Instead of helping, passersby were filming with their cell phones. The horrific images won't let Jenni go. Horror and rage at the gawkers' pitiless curiosity take her completely captive. There is hardly any room for her grief; instead, she obsessively searches for the accident spectators in order to confront them with the consequences of their sensationalism. She finds what she's looking for – but her first encounters don't help her. No one seems aware of any wrongdoing, or capable of admitting it. Supported by a tough lawyer, Jenni decides to take action against the sensationalists.
Childcare is a constant topic of discussion and argument between Nika and Tom. Until the seemingly perfect nanny enters their lives. But are their children safe with Manu? Nika meets the young, likeable woman by chance in the playground. When she spontaneously offers to be their nanny, Manu seems to the young couple like an angel fallen from heaven, improving their overburdened family life in no time at all. Designer Nika in particular gets on really well with the creative Manu, beyond all the children's issues. Tom is not quite so enthusiastic, he would like to keep the relationship on an employee basis, because Manu is increasingly intruding into their family life, spending the night with them and "standing in" for Nika at a family weekend.
A body is pulled out of the sea and it becomes clear this was neither a suicide nor accident… it was murder.
The engineer Rosalie leads a life without standing still. She doesn't feel old for a long time, only mature. When Rosalie returns to Germany after a fainting spell at a solar project in Africa, it's just supposed to be a breather. When she shows up at her bourgeois sister Margret's with a huge container, she is not very enthusiastic about the surprise visit. The retired teacher sees right through that Rosalie isn't staying with her voluntarily. The well-travelled woman is broke! It seems like a miracle that there are a huge chunk of banknotes in a hole in the wall of the room. On the other side of the wall there is the room of the highly talented high school graduate Karla, who rents a part of Margret's house with her father Harald. After a failed first meeting, Rosalie befriends with the wheelchair-bound teenager and sets her mind on getting Karla out of her sheltered isolation, even against her will.
Klaus Kranitz considers "normal" couples therapy to be nothing more than expensive separation counseling. His do-it-yourself approach promises quick results. Whatever the form, or you'll get your money back.
Dr. Theresa Wolff returns to her hometown to become Head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Jena, where she assists the police in murder investigations using both her gift for forensics and her good sense of humor.
Frank Koops has to deal with a criminal rocker gang and opaque BKA colleagues.
Opening a pub in a dusty dump with virtually no choice. Only one drink, only one dish and only one song. Does that sound like a good idea? In Munich, the city with gastronomic abundance? Probably not. Nevertheless, two casual acquaintances have exactly this business idea and put it into practice in upscale Munich, in the middle of the chic crowd. The Munich commercial film director Augustin is thrown out because he hasn't paid the rent. Together with the unsuccessful Austrian writer Roland, whom he doesn't really like, he moves into his grandmother's former restaurant. The two men decide to reopen the pub. Although they only serve sausages and schnapps, they are surprisingly successful. But the landlord has other plans.
While two young teachers are spending their summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast they are overwhelmed by a sudden attack. Back home, they try to deal with the trauma in their own ways until a surprising encounter changes everything.
