An international group of medical students takes part in a seminar on fear - with deadly results.

After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.

Isn't life beautiful? Isabella Jung - who everyone just calls Bella - is tempted to answer the question with a firm "No!", because her husband Martin is cheating on her with a younger colleague at his birthday party, which Bella has organized especially for him. And in front of the assembled friends and neighbors. Together with her 15-year-old daughter Lena, Bella quickly moves out of their home and into a hotel. She secretly waits for a remorseful apology from Martin, but this does not happen: instead, he confesses to her that it was not a misstep, but that he is serious about the "new girl", Valerie. At first Bella is completely devastated, but in the end she doesn't let it get her down and dares to make a fresh start in life.

Rodolpho Aranda, head of an Argentinian chemical company, is found murdered in a Berlin bookshop: An elderly librarian named Valerie Steinfeld poisoned him with cyanide and then took her own life. As the LKA was unable to establish any connection between the victim and the perpetrator, the motive for the crime remains unclear. When Aranda's son Manuel arrives to transfer his father's body to Argentina, the case is officially closed. Instead of an explanation, the young doctor only receives a sealed zinc coffin - the search for the truth is left to him.

Mary is a lawyer whose successful career is turned upside down when she has a car accident. Forced to live in a wheelchair she is fired and abandoned by her lover.