Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The war has scarred this generation, but now things are supposed to be looking up. The workers want their fair share and are fighting for an income that also gives them room to live. In October 1956, 34,000 metalworkers in the shipyards and factories of Schleswig-Holstein walk off the job to fight for justice and their dignity. This strike is still regarded as the toughest and longest in Germany. Employers and politicians stand in the strikers' way.

The relationship between the sensitive free spirit and self-proclaimed feminist Luca and his father Mathi, an old-school man with a classic understanding of his role, is complicated. Now father and son are expecting a baby at the same time. When the two of them happen to be attending the same seminar for fathers-to-be - isolated in the woods among like-minded men - their relationship dispute escalates.

Toni (Sarah Engels) falls in love with Tom, but he has a dark secret.

In the year 2050, Earth has been irretrievably destroyed by man-made climate change. People spend every free second glued to their media screens watching as a new home is created for Earth’s long-suffering inhabitants in the Mars settlement "Asimov I." All other forms of entertainment have become irrelevant. Day and night, the Mars reality show broadcasts A WHOLE NEW WORLD.