During a coma, Blank has visions of a desert. When he wakes up from his coma in hospital, he realizes that he has lost his memory. Without knowing who he is, he sets off in search of himself. Ward sister Maria, who has been raising her son Gaspar alone for years without a husband, becomes Blank's involuntary escape helper from the hospital and accomplice in an adventurous search for the seven basic rules of life.

A successful landscape architect is forced to stay overnight in a remote castle hotel after a car breaks down, where she learns that the castle owners' adopted 20-year-old daughter is actually her own presumed dead daughter.

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist wants to spend his honeymoon in Mauritius, where he meets his childhood sweetheart, who works here as a hotel manager. Their 20-year-old daughter works as an entertainer and the man has no idea that he is the father. When the young woman is put in danger by a love-struck German doctor, he has to act.

Just before Anniela and Robert are supposed to move to Singapore where they were planning on getting married and having Robert work for the family business, Anniela surprises her fiancé in the arms of his last girlfriend. Immediately ending their relationship, she stubbornly departs for Singapore alone. She is thrilled to see her old friend Ming Lee, director of a cultural center for deprived children. In addition to taking a job teaching German, Anniela offers music lessons to the kids. It isn't long before she falls in love with Dai Si, one of the students in her language class. However, he hasn't been truthful about his identity. Afraid of losing Anniela's love, he hides the fact that he is the son of the rich industrialist who plans on tearing down the cultural center to build a casino. Anniela eventually discovers who her new lover really is. Now twice brokenhearted, she prepares to flee Singapore for home. The magic of true love, however, is not so easily discouraged.

With a pounding heart, the horse madman Martina Kilian awaits the wedding with the glamorous jumping rider Arndt Graf Solm-Weltingen. When the Count hangs up the cavalry just before the marriage to enter the catering business of his future parents-in-law, Martina painfully notes that Arndt is not the man of their dreams. While the wedding preparations are in full swing, Martina falls in love with sympathetic veterinarian Erik.

Auctioneer Clara wants to move from Carinthia to London with her yuppie friend Robert.

Antonia Hofmaier and her son Linus actually only want to pay a short visit to the North Sea island of Langeoog: Antonia needs the signature of her father, with whom she has had no contact for almost twenty years, to sell her parents' house in Munich.

When 24-year-old Tom, Sawcombe's grandson, meets 20-year-old Vicky Harding while doing an internship at the neighboring farm, it's love at first sight. But Vicky's parents find out about it and forbid their daughter to have any contact with Tom.