On her 18th birthday, Constanze encounters a highly guarded secret. She discovers in amazement that she has six brothers, who have been transformed into snow-white swans by a careless word from their father on the day of Constanze's birth. Constanze is stunned when suddenly the six swans appear. They explain to her sister that only she alone can curse the curse: for six years Constanze could not speak a single word and has to sew shirts made of stinging nettles. The shirts will be able to turn the swans back into people.

Breaking into houses with her best friend seems to be the perfect distraction for a teenage girl from her fighting parents. But instead of having a harmless thrill they get to witness domestic violence.

After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.

An unfortunate misunderstanding leads to another and suddenly Isabel is caught in a web of lies. A web of ghastly lies: She lets her friends believe that she is suffering from cancer. The sudden gush of attention that she experiences makes her long for more. It becomes an addiction she can not resist. Just as she begins to have doubts, she has to realize that she has gone too far for truth.

Having been brought up by a variety of different mothers, the young foreign language correspondent Lisa Hellmann now longs for a sense of family security in her adopted home of Barcelona. She may have found this with Emilio de Alvarado's family. The (strictly Catholic) wedding is already planned and the obligatory christening is on the agenda. But then Lisa's old-68 grandmother Ingeborg bursts into the ceremony and not only causes displeasure with her views, but also shakes Lisa's faith in the rightness of her actions.

When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.

Private detective Josef Matula investigates again. More bad than right, he hits in Frankfurt as a department store detective until it leads him to a new order to the North Sea coast.

Psychologist Kara Bischoff and LKA Commissioner Sibylle Deininger, once a couple, are reunited by a brutal murder case.

Thomas Borchert, the unlicensed lawyer, and his colleague Dominique Kuster take on the case of Anna Sutter, who wants to contest the will of her father, watchmaker Ludwig Sutter, following his unexpected death. Shortly thereafter, Anna Sutter's half-brother René is found murdered in his office, and the young woman becomes a suspect in the murder. The evidence points to her guilt, particularly the fact that her fingerprints are found on the murder weapon and that, according to a witness statement, she was the last person to be with him before his death. Dominique Kuster attempts to represent her as a lawyer in the murder trial and prove her innocence.