This TV-Movie is based on real events that took place in southern Germany in the mid 80's. A policeman tries to build a house for his family while he experiences financial troubles; everything goes tragically wrong from then on.

One wants to do everything right, the second die and the third somehow make ends meet. And yet all three have the same problem: the lack of autonomy. A love triangle about self-determination as the key to life.

16-year-old Nana finds out that she has just a short time left to live, because of a bad and serious disease.

A married former art student decides to start painting again, because her children are out of the house and her husband neglects her. However, that is not easy.

Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.

Computer expert Silvia Berger suffers from severe amnesia: she neither knows her true identity nor can she remember the past. She is tormented by terrible nightmares. Against the wishes of her psychoanalyst, she researches her past. Using a computer, she finds her home town: a small island in the Baltic Sea. Silvia travels there - and discovers her family's criminal machinations...