The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite legally with the help of his family doctor. For Dr. Brandt (Anna Maria Mühe), out of personal conviction, it is out of the question to get her elderly but healthy patient a fatal preparation.
This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
After a Jewish boy was harassed by his classmates for months, an argument breaks out between the overwhelmed parents, the class teacher and the school management.
Young detective Ria Larsen is faced with the question of how serial killer Wernicke, who is imprisoned in a psychiatric ward, instructs brutal murders on the Husum coast. The bodies in the dunes point to a copy killer. During the investigation, Ria suddenly finds herself in a race against time and in a dangerous mind game with a ritual killer who has already destroyed the life of her predecessor.
In her former life, Eva Bernhardt was called Evelyn Frank and was a notorious brothel owner in Berlin. But then she decided to testify as a key witness against her husband and his business partner and was accepted into a witness protection program. With a new identity, she now lives as Eva in the Bavarian mountains and starts all over again. She settles into her new surroundings surprisingly quickly and soon makes friends. The two witness protection officers Ines Meder and Holger Nolting observe Eva skeptically and with a watchful eye. Ines in particular has some doubts about Eva's sincerity when she is introduced to her as her daughter. When Eva then wraps the manager of a restaurant around her finger, Ines is certain that Eva is playing a false game...
Susanne's dream vacation in Florida ends in tragedy. She learns that she has been cheated on by her husband Michael and a little later he is killed by criminals. At home in Berlin, the nightmare continues: apparently, her late husband's company is on the verge of bankruptcy.
The tide washes up a slain Viking warrior on the beach in Husum: the unusual "dead body by the sea" is not a case for historians, however, but for the police and detective Ria Larsen. Marlene Tanczik plays the battered but combative investigator in the second film in the Saturday evening crime series on the first channel. Christoph Letkowski plays her partner Brandt, who believes in Ria's special abilities and is loyal to her.
Inspector Süden's friend and colleague Martin Heuer is in the final of the German qualifying round for the air guitar world championship. Suddenly his toughest competitor is nowhere to be found: Edward Loos, an architect and loner in real life, who is better than anyone else as an air guitarist, has disappeared and nobody seems to be bothered by it. Although this is not actually a case for Missing Persons Division 11 - Loos has disappeared but has not been reported missing - Inspector Süden and his team trust Heuer's intuition and set out to search for an air guitarist who has vanished into thin air. But another spooky case is keeping the missing persons department busy. A man claims to have seen his wife, who died in the 2004 tsunami, again in the Munich subway.
