Ten episodes tell the stories of ten encounters involving a male hooker, an actor, a cleaning lady, a female theater director, a male kindergarten teacher, a poetess, a publisher, a woman, who is a lawyer, a male puppeteer and a female make-up artist. The whole circle is triggered by the off-chance meeting of the poetess and the puppeteer on an overnight bus to Vienna, where the puppeteer succeeds in persuading the poetess to stay for a day in Vienna. All the encounters take place in one day and after 24 hours they meet again, but their lives have changed.

10 people, 10 relationships, 10 realities. Within 24 hours unexpected, almost impossible facts come into light and change the lives of the protagonists forever. An episodic film about the polarity between freedom and responsibility.

Georgy Hillmaier, single again, returns to Vienna after a long stay in Thailand. Completely penniless, without a job or place to stay, he ends up on the street until he learns that he has meanwhile become a father. In order to pay off the overdue alimony, Georgy has to get back into the call boy business in a brothel exclusively for women, run by his sister Gitti.

Anne Harding looks after her small fruit and vegetable farm, her teenage daughter Jamie and her mother Molly, who suffers from arthritis. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally's butler, turns up on her doorstep. The widow wants to lend John to her sister Molly for six weeks. With his discreet manner, John gets to the bottom of the family's little secrets and tries to help them inconspicuously.

On December 24, in the middle of the supposedly quietest time of the year, anything is possible! And this is exactly what the episodic film "Schrille Nacht" tells in seven short stories.

Julia and her friends, celebrating their high school graduation in Croatia, find themselves the targets of a masked killer who begins picking them off, one by one.

The second film of the Alpine crime series introduces the unequal investigator duo Miriam Stein and Hary Prinz into the world of skiing: To clarify the murder of the Austrian national coach, the Graz investigators look behind the high-gloss facade, where through competition, intrigue and commerce the team spirit led to absurdity becomes.

Claudia travels to Iceland for her son Patrick's dream wedding. She has a big surprise in store: she is the mysterious "new girl" of his best friend Alex, who has even proposed to her and wants to turn the ceremony into a double wedding. However, the secret lovers are waiting for the right time to tell the unsuspecting Patrick. Both fear that he will be less than thrilled. Shortly after arriving in Reykjavik, Patrick receives a phone call that throws everything out of kilter for him: his fiancée Anna cancels at the last minute! He also receives bad news from the start-up he set up with Alex in Hamburg. Patrick would love to fly back immediately, but a volcanic eruption puts a spanner in the works. Instead of a celebration and honeymoon, he has to pass the time with Alex, Claudia and his assistant Nina. Nina also has a secret agenda: to conquer Patrick.

Singer July relies on a donor kidney from her father. But first she has to reconcile with him, since she has been hopelessly at odds with him for a long time.

The latest Gasperlmaier case has almost ended in Ausseerland. On the day of the Pfeiffer's Day, of all days, a young musician is found dead on the Weißenbachalm pasture, and Gasperlmaier must once again embark on a criminal hunt. This time, too, the likeable police officer, Franz Gasperlmaier, can't rest. Not only is his beloved wife, Christine, traveling the world, leaving him alone with the household, but a new murder case is keeping Gasperlmaier on his toes. At the annual Pfeiffer's Day, where he is about to enjoy a fine schnapps with station commander Friedrich Kahlß, a scream shatters the peaceful atmosphere.