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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Marisa hates foreigners; she finds them guilty of the decline of her country. But her convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee.
- People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging mob besieges a residential building occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- Teenage Sascha has two dreams: to write a novel about her mother and to take revenge on her step-father who brutally murdered her.
- During a vacation on an island, two best friends from childhood are haunted by the ghosts of their past.
- One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever. A couple of days after the "event" a real Japanese turned up at the restaurant and demanded the same meal again. From this moment there was no way back. The Japanese loved Rolf Anschütz cooking and his restaurant "Der Waffenschmied" (Gunsmith) soon was honored as the place which offered the best and most authentic Japanese cuisine outside Japan. In the shortest time the Japanese have accepted Rolf Anschütz as one theirs. They celebrate the Authenzität of his kitchen and the "original" Japanese washing rituals before the meals would be served. First diplomats, later Japanese economic bosses and sports delegations were sitting in the pool of the now famous restaurant "Waffenschmied - Japanese department" - naked and side by side with government officials and the brigades of the East German working class. And because the omnipresent communist party cannot close the popular place any more, the state security better known as Stasi took also their seat in the pool. The party soon discovered Rolfs restaurant as a foreign currency bringer and allowed the import of Japanese food and exotic ingredients from a delicatessen importer from West Germany. And while Rolfs Anschütz, in the meantime, wearing kimonos and East German geisha's on his side, philosophies about the peaceful coexistence of the people in the World his restaurant turns into the only really existing "theme park" in East Germany. Who wanted to go for a meal, must order two years in advance - at the end it will be 2 million guests!
- 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.
- 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.
- The delicatessen.
- Baker Schmidt quickly returns home from the pub after an urgent phone call from his wife, who has discovered burglars in the house. But he arrives only to find her dead - murdered. He suspects that the case might be related to a series of burglaries in the neighbourhood. Kriminalkommissar Nagel starts being suspicious about Schmidt when he learns that the latter has an affair with his former employee, Anni Klein. Single mother Klein has to submit to lengthy questioning by the police, but denies any knowledge about the crime. And Schmidt's alibi seems iron-clad, seeing that he was in a pub surrounded by people who knew him. Meanwhile, the burglary series is solved, the perpetrators denying vigourously any connection to the murder. Because nothing had been stolen from the bakery, Nagel is bent to believe them. Little does he know that the lover of Schmidt's neighbour, Ms. Scherzer, could throw light on the case, because he has seen Wilhelm Fink leaving the house that evening - but, being a politician and married on top, he fears for his reputation. Finally the police receives an anonymous tip about Fink, and he admits to having had an affair with Mrs. Schmidt. As was his wont, he had awaited her husbands departure on that evening and then entered the house with his own key - only to find her dead. This information finally shatters Schmidt's alibi, and he admits to the murder.