Carola Weber is shocked when her husband Jochen introduces his new colleague from the hospital: she knows this voice. Hearing it catapults Carola back to the worst time of her life, her imprisonment in the GDR women's prison Hoheneck. She is convinced that Prof. Wolfgang Limberg was the doctor who treated her there with psychotropic drugs in order to force her to testify, and thus caused her to lose two fingers while working on the conveyor belt. Carola's career as a pianist was over forever.

For doctor Malu, her new partner Hannes is simply perfect. But appearances are deceptive. As Malu gets involved in the relationship, she notices more and more strange things about Hannes. He turns up at her practice without being asked and interferes in Malu's professional affairs. He also intrudes more and more and then disappears again without a word. Malu finally breaks up with Hannes. But it's not over for him yet. Only now does Malu realize that he wants to have control over her life. Neither her private life nor her professional life are safe from him. Hannes gains access to her house, tampers with her computer and photographs her in her sleep. To make matters worse, Hannes even places an obituary for Malu. The police are powerless against the stalker as he leaves no trace. So Malu decides to stop him herself...

The Wagners' marriage is as good as over. But just as the couple are on vacation in Tenerife, a boat carrying black African refugees lands. Eleven-year-old Jamaal is hiding in the couple's vacation bungalow. Jamaal's father supposedly lives in Germany. Should the Wagners help him escape to Germany? And will Jamaal perhaps save the Wagners' marriage? Then: Thank you, colored refugee child!

A dinghy drifts ashore on some forsaken beach. Its passenger is a Sri Lankan boy. Ben, a former Stasi-prisoner, saves and decides to hide him. But nothing escapes the small island community for long and soon the local policeman becomes suspicious. He and Ben used to be on opposite sides of the fence and now, as the fate of a refugee from far away unfolds, their own past catches up with them.

The world of Teresa Brandt ( Katharina Böhm ) turns upside down when her husband, Hans ( Götz Schubert ), unexpectedly falls into a coma. A woman is faced with a strenuous task - she has to take care of the entire economy, home and child herself. He does not give up hope that his beloved will recover and tries to cope with the task. The situation becomes even more complicated when the local engineer Sören Gawron ( Mark Waschke ) appears on the farm . The couple develops a thread of sympathy with each other. Their relationship grows stronger with each passing day.

Ella and Marcus Herlinger desperately want to have a child. But Ella is a carrier of the incurable hereditary disease Duchenne, which her twelve-year-old nephew Lennart already has. Without the knowledge of her older sister Johanna, Ella tries to get pregnant with the help of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. However, to cover the high costs, Ella needs Johanna's consent to take out a mortgage on the jointly inherited parental farm. Johanna finally agrees to the mortgage without knowing the real reason for her sister's money worries. But the marriage between Ella and Marcus is put to the test by the medical treatment.