Albert Gottwald is a retired dance teacher and has been a widower for three years. He misses his wife so much that he has lost all courage to face life, buries himself in his semi-detached house - and meticulously plans his death.

While searching for a serial killer in Berlin's tunnel system, investigator Maik Brunner is hit by a subway train. He wakes up in hospital - in the GDR, in 1984! Lieutenant Kempe is already waiting for him - she is working with him on a series of murders very similar to the one in 2009. Here, too, the perpetrator has poisoned his victims. And here, too, he knows his way around the underground. If Brunner catches the perpetrator in 1984, he could save his girlfriend. In 2009, she is in the hands of the madman...

Jessika, a precocious teenage girl with loving parents and a good-natured older sister, is the center of a slightly eccentric family. A series of small events disrupts their delicately balanced ecosystem. Jessika's father loses his job and becomes bored and despondent, while Jessika's mother reenters the workforce and becomes empowered. These events act as catalysts for the slow, painful disintegration of the family, with each member committing shocking acts of alienation and self-destruction. Desperately wanting her family but at the same time desiring her adolescent independence, Jessika struggles to find the best way to restore a balance.

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

In 1991, the mood in East Germany is gloomy. Unemployment and poverty among the population in the GDR are high. Many people blame the Treuhand for the misery. Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, is unable to find work despite hundreds of applications. His wife considers him a failure and leaves him for a rich man from the West. Only his best friend Rudi, who is also unemployed, sticks by him. Rudi's wife Gerda keeps the family afloat with a poorly performing erotic mail order business. Werner then gets a job interview with a computer company in Munich. The Wessis denounce Werner during the interview and humiliate him with Stasi slogans.....

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

After completing her training as a hotel manager, Polly Cameron returns to the town where she grew up. In the idyllic fishing village of Cherry Cove on the New York coast, she takes over her parents’ cozy bed-and-breakfast with the help of her friend Bridget. Polly has already put a lot of work into the “Sunflower” and is hoping for a successful first season. The start is promising: at a party hosted by Mayor Melissa Teerpack, she meets the extremely charming businessman David Locking. Sparks fly immediately between Polly and him—much to Melissa’s displeasure, as she has long had her eye on the successful bachelor due to her unhappy marriage.

Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the local home for the blind. Inspector Higgins suspects that something is not right there.