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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and two policemen die, the powder keg threatens to ignite as the SWAT team knows only one goal: revenge - irrespective of the law.
- Marieke wants to live her life. But how can she succeed if love has been taken away from her? She seeks warmth in the arms of much older men to find the strength to face the past and finally be herself. Marieke is 20 years old. She lives with her mother, Jeanne, a woman left cold and distant ever since her husband died. During the day, Marieke works in a Brussels chocolate factory. At night, she escapes into the arms of much older men. With them she feels strong, cherished and free. The arrival of Jacoby, a book editor living abroad, searching for her father's last manuscript, upsets Marieke's precarious balance. Her mother does everything in her power to keep them apart. She fears that he will reveal the secret that has remained hidden for so many years. Marieke falls in love with Jacoby but devastated by the truth of her father's death, she sinks despair. Will she find the strength to accept the truth and live anew?
- In early-1980s East Germamy, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his girlfriend Anna to him, but they made a pact that stipulated that Georg could have her back at any time. Years later, Paul and Anna are successful and happily-married with two children. Then Georg reappears, and he has not forgotten the pact.
- The Leipzig star lawyer Florian Faber represents wealthy real estate companies who rubbish little people with questionable financing models. The arrogant bachelor, spoiled for success, has no scruples and he lives on a large scale, including a designer apartment and sailing yacht. How hollow and monotonous his life is only becomes clear to the once sympathetic and imaginative lawyer when he is innocently involved in a serious traffic accident and barely escapes death. Florian visits the widow Elke Linde, whose husband Thomas was fatally injured by the driver who fled the accident. He learns that the mother of two is in danger of losing her house through a foreclosure sale. This is due to the real estate company "Argens Wohnfinanz", which Florian is supposed to represent. He cheerfully changes sides and takes over Elke's mandate. His law firm partners Rigas and Braun are furious. Together with the attractive journalist Sarah Pohl, Florian tracks down the shady machinations of the real estate mafia. Sarah is impressed by his change of heart and falls madly in love with him. But when Florian surprisingly comes under suspicion of corruption, she begins to doubt the noble motifs of the "white knight".
- When a charming business man betrays several women in order to make money, two betrayed women execute a plan to get their money back.
- A female social worker who looks after girls who live on the street enquires on the disappearance of girls she had looked after. She discovers that there is a link between the disappearances and her past.
- The vivacious Sofie has her life firmly under control: the single mother seems to master the balancing act between work, parenthood and love life with ease. She lives with her 15-year-old son Phillip, her eleven-year-old daughter Jenny and her maternal friend Rosa in an old Leipzig city villa and is a successful author of romance novels - actually. Unfortunately, an almost insurmountable writer's block stands in the way of completing her latest work, which gradually causes her publisher and occasional lover Konrad to panic. As if that weren't enough, Sofie also faces a lot of challenges from her children: Phillip, who is in the middle of puberty, is rebellious and only has girls on his mind, while little Jenny asks more and more often who her father is - because both children never met their fathers . It is precisely in this tense situation that a man appears whose existence Sofie had successfully suppressed for many years: Vincent, Rosa's son and once Sofie's great love, left her overnight 15 years ago to seek his fortune in Australia. Since then she has never heard from him again. Now he is suddenly in front of the door again. But did he really only come for Rosa's 70th birthday? Or does he want to assert his claim to the villa after all these years, which he and Sofie inherited together at the time? Either way, Sofie is anything but happy about Vincent's return. The pain from back then is too deep and she fears that it could once again upset her life and her feelings. That's why she tries to keep secret from him that they have much more in common than a broken love. However, Vincent soon calculates that Phillipp must be his son. While he tries to develop a friendly relationship with the unsuspecting boy, Sofie realizes that she still has feelings for Vincent. But the power woman cannot and does not want to admit that to herself.
- Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
- Sarah Pohl is journalist in a great newspaper of Leipzig and she is now writing an article about an employer (the FCS company) who contracts illegally women and these women work in terrible conditions.His companion Florian Faber, represents Mrs Wörner, a woman who has been hit by the car driven by René Tornow, a candidate who looks for his reelection in the town hall of Leipzig, Mr. Tornow was driving his car under the influence of alcohol.This morning Florian has a meeting with Mrs. Wörner and is quite sure that he can win the trial, because Tornow was drunken and there are several witnesses who can testify it.But Florian speaks with Mrs. Wörner about her work as cleaning lady for the FCS company, but she is not convinced to denounce her work conditions.Sarah Pohl nearly shocks with Dirk Kosinsky,the manager of the FCS company, and asks him for an interview.Later she follows a van which is picking immigrant women for working.Besides Sarah is happy to meet again her former boyfriend Thomas Gärtner who has come to Leipzig.Florian just makes an ironical comment about the arrival of Thomas.
- Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.
- Sixteen year old pupil Sina Wolf has a love affair with her married teacher Fichte. Also pupil Michael Harms, her ex-boyfriend, cannot resist her beauty. One day Michael follows Sina by the lake and sees her having sex with Fichte. Then he blackmails her and force her to meet him in the forest the following day, telling her that he can do what Fichte did to her. She accepts to show-up but he soon begins to kiss her wildly, she lay down quickly on the ground, not to be sighted. She finally stops him doing anything further by taking a big stone, later telling everyone that somebody tried to rape her in the forest while Michael was helping her. As the police begins to investigate Michael's death they regard teacher Fichte with suspicion. Things screw up for Sina as now Fichte stops dating her and police's questions are beginning to be uncomfortable.
- When an immigrant railway worker from Italy is found dead in Munich, homicide inspector Veigl and his team suspect murder. However, it turns out that the deceased died in an accident when he an his workmates did illegal construction work for one of their German colleagues who stole the building material from the railway company.
- A murderer of women is going around in Stuttgart. And he seems to have a thing for redheads.