Something unbelievable happens during a live television broadcast! Minister Kollmann is speaking at a rally of protesting farmers when he is suddenly shot dead. Television director Basler, head of a local TV station, sees the assassination as the opportunity of a lifetime.

When the Paris airport management is informed by telephone that there is a time bomb on board a Canadian Atlantic Airways plane to Montréal, they initially believe it is a bad joke. But the caller answers again. Inspector Bignon gets involved...

Harry lives quietly with two older sisters. But when he falls in love with a pretty girl, he finds the atmosphere at home getting distinctly chilly.

Piskov, any idyllic small town in 1969. One day there is an incident that causes a sensation in press, radio and television, but leaves the citizens of Piskov completely cold. All clocks stop and time stops! A being from the future, more precisely from the year 523 to Gagarin, lands in the small town! The skeptical inhabitants ignore the incident completly. Two journalists (Hellmut Lange and Hannelore Elsner) try to get to the bottom of things and ask various witnesses about the mysterious events...