Veras Mantle is about a successful author who suffers from agoraphobia and can't leave her house. When she is threatened by a sinister fan, Vera comes gradually behind the secret of her illness.

Village policeman Husmann bids farewell to his boss Eggers on his well-deserved retirement. Tough Inspector Posch is put in temporary charge of the small police station in Eggeborg. Shortly afterwards, the first case arises: an unknown person is smearing cows with aggressive slogans at night. Stefanie Posch and local policeman Thies Husmann take over the investigation, which quickly leads them from the cows to a completely different, much more dubious mystery.

The media and technology boom of the 1930s triggered a flood of new sexual practices that drove a Catholic priest and a war widow to make what is probably the world's first reconnaissance talk show. Until the acquired knowledge began to allure them irremediably.