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- 'Die, you pig!'. The words are emblazoned on the wall of school principal Höpfl's home for all the villagers to see. Soon after, this very man is found lying dead as a doornail on the train tracks. Franz Eberhofer, the local policeman in the sleepy Lower Bavarian province of Niederkaltenkirchen, suspects murder. And the prospect is one that does not entirely displease him, as this backwoods offers very little excitement other than the fantastic meals with his cooking-obsessed Grandma or the constant stress with his Beatles-loving Dad. He is supported by Rudi Birkenberger, now a department-store detective but previously with Franz in the Munich detective squad until both were suspended. The Höpfl case gets even more tangled when a second corpse is found, that of a drug-addict hustler with whom Höpfl had been in contact. Franz must also cope with the fact that his Susi is having an affair and he thinks the lover is the Thai offspring of his estranged brother, who is supposed to be their babysitter.
- Concluding with Bückling: Frederick Schopner (Volker Bruch) is fed up with the fact that his so-called team colleagues have the laurels for his ideas. At the upcoming outdoor company event, he is finally able to give the three distinguished egomanians a lesson in "High Performance". But team optimization in the Hochseilgarten was yesterday. PR manager Vanessa Kramer (Lavinia Wilson) wants to land a press coup and is based on unusual methods: she lets a perfect hostage take place - however, from detached actors. For the two spaghetti Western actors, nothing is closer than to improve their salary with real ransom and real weapons. While Vanessa is doing everything to cover up the breakdown in front of her boss (Hanns Zischler) and the media representatives present, the inexperienced hostesses have to deal with quite different problems: how to make it clear to the successful managers that they are no longer in an ingenious Rolling game?
- Investment bank manager FRANK BERNDSSEN (c. 40), based in Berlin, believes life to be just a matter of careful advance planning. Currently, he works for a Swiss investor group keen on taking over the French nation-wide meat production chain of Charcuteries Albert. If everything turns out well, Frank's bank will earn billions, and he'll be promoted to a director's post. He just needs the French side to agree to his plan, which is why he's on his way to Paris. While still at Airport Berlin-Tegel waiting to check in, Frank's progress is slowed to a standstill by chaotic author PATRIZIA MUNZ (beginning 30s), who wishes to board the plane under all circumstances, although the flight is overbooked in the economy class. Patrizia, an upcoming novelist, has forgotten her credit cards, when she received a phone call just an hour ago from a Paris clinic. Her lover, Parisian architect JEAN-JACQUES SECRETIN lies in a coma, heavily injured in a car crash. Frank, queuing nervously behind her, loans to Patrizia the cash she needs for the upgrade of her economy-class ticket. On the flight in business class, they make hesitant but ineffective efforts to do smalltalk and then leave each other alone.
- For 25 years, Elli ran a farm in provincial Bavaria alongside her husband. The heavy work never left the two much time for contemplative togetherness: pragmatism instead of romance determined their togetherness. But despite all the hardships, after the unexpected death of her husband, Elli is determined to continue the business. Elli cannot expect any help from her daughter Kathrin, who works in a luxury hotel in Munich, and her son Christian, whose Thai wife Alicha runs a hairdressing salon in the village. Her bank advisor Kurt also urges her to sell the heavily indebted farm as quickly as possible. But the militant farmer's wife ignores this advice as well as Kurt's amorous advances. She wants to take her life into her own hands, and that includes finding love again - a man who can lend a hand on the farm without spoiling the romantic relationship. For this purpose, she enlists the help of a dating agency, where she is classified as "difficult to place" due to her job. In fact, at first only odd types and aging couch potatoes seem to seek contact - and even their interest dwindles as soon as they find out about Elli's job. Raymond, from Zimbabwe alone, is undeterred by the prospect of living on a farm. When they first meet, the two immediately like each other, with his down-to-earth, reserved nature, the African can immediately win Elli over. Without further ado, she offers him to move in with her on a trial basis. However, the mismatched couple causes irritation in the village. The men in particular view the dark-skinned Africans with suspicion and prejudice. Even Ellis' own son, although married to a foreigner himself, is skeptical about the new man at his mother's side. But Elli doesn't want to let her new happiness be destroyed that easily. She defends Raymond against all hostilities. However, when he is denounced by a villager at the immigration office, Elli dares a courageous step to save Raymond from safe deportation.
- At a speed dating, it clicks between public greens laborer Andi, who pretends being an attorney, and assurance mathematician Kathrin (40), whose married -hence envied- sister Susanne convinced her to try, but reacted on previous candidates being turned off by that profession posed as a nurse. Yet finding out his deception she meanly overreacts, yet can't forget him and is to be found out herself after 'dumping him', believing she's revenging being stood up, while he only hesitated to call. Andi's work buddy Norbert and Susanne counsel coming clean, leading to another date.