Hannah and her husband, the insurance agent Reinhard Petzold, initially lead a quiet life in Swabia. However, when daughter Lina goes to Berlin for a weekend and Hannah and Reinhard secretly follow her, this throws the orderly family life into disarray. In Berlin, the couple stumbles from one chaos to the next...

A bodyguard who is supposed to protect a world-class tennis player from her violent uncle and ex-manager is confronted with the kidnapping of his charge and is subjected to a rollercoaster of emotions as he falls in love with the athlete.

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do not exist in socialism.

Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to be blamed the townspeople turn against an inconspicious policeman, a family-man who becomes suspected of the crime and therefore loses his job. Strangely enough, the only work he can find is to distribute candy on children, dressed up as clown. When a bunch of kiddies, including his own son who doesn't recognize the father due to the masquerade, plays a nasty trick to him, things turn really ugly...