Katharina Hendriks loves her job as headmistress of a vocational school. However, cutbacks threaten to spoil her job, as does the arrival of her brother Erik as a guest teacher. Their visions clash and this has consequences not only for the atmosphere, but also for the pupils.

In today’s Friesland, Fuchs, a food inspector in the district, is always in a good mood and committed to investigating North German snack bars. He dreams of a career in Hamburg, for which he works hard. But his superior at the public order office, Sigmar Koch, asks Fuchs to do him a special favor: he has to accommodate his brother Tillmann, a bad-tempered drunk.

Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends.

Grumpy widower Walter lives alone with his dog in Regensburg and spends his time writing restaurant reviews on the internet. But when he meets his old childhood sweetheart, art professor Alice, whom he had unsuccessfully proposed to 40 years earlier, his life changes radically once again.

Nina and Angie are best friends and struggle through life together. When Angie's teenage daughter Rahel needs €300 for a school trip, they decide to go to the bank where Nina's husband Marc works to ask him for a small loan. But when Marc harshly rejects their request, Angie loses her temper. Things get out of control—and suddenly the friends are stuck in the bank and mistaken for gangsters.