During Kaare and Hanne Eliassen's 25th anniversary, their teen model son Daniel, who was biting side pains until his exams, collapses and is diagnosed with potentially fatal chronic renal failure. Both parents are ready to donate a kidney for transplantation, but neither matches and Kaare discovers Hanne's 20 years secret: Kaare being presumed near-infertile, she had a 'loveless' but siring affair, which also generated Daniel's brat sister Emma, who encourages Kaare to fall for divorce and disown Hanna. Daniel needing a donor, Hanne desperately searches his biological father, who left town and has a rather common name: Leif Sörensen, only reported found by desperate radio appeal. The meteorologist lives in an island lighthouse, so Kaare, Hanne and Emma, who gets a mutual crush on helpful young fisherman Ronny Stene, sail hurried to the only man who can heal medical urgency, wondering what it will do to relationships, and Daniel finds out to.
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and the profound changes currently underway.
In his own Hotel Ritz, Sophie mistakes Johannes for the expected temporary waiter and is quickly trained in the supposed task. Johannes gets involved and gets to know the hotel business and the employees from a new perspective.
When Germany is hit by a drought, the Ruhr area is threatened with the collapse of drinking water. Meteorologist Martina Fechner is appointed head of the crisis team, but has to recognize that her colleagues see the crisis as an opportunity for their own career. When even highly toxic germs are discovered in a reservoir, the region is also threatened by a plague.
Little Jan wants to matchmake his widowed father Peter. But dad gruffly rebuffs candidate Lisa. So Jan asks his mother in heaven for help. Whoosh: dog and pet pig can talk and help! Lousy computer animation, bored actors and unimaginative dialog: despite Ferkel and Fifi, it's a complete waste of time!
Marvin Feldmann has an unusual job: he works for the "Book of Records". His new order leads the strict and incorruptible record watcher to the Finnish island of Föglö. There is said to be a boy there who can make a stone jump 52 times on the water. Marvin does not have a great desire for the arduous journey, and when the twelve-year-old Elias barely fails in his attempt to set a record, he wants to leave immediately. However, Marvin did not count on the shrewd islanders who want to give the life-threatening boy a second chance - especially Elias' aunt Fanny.
Rick Hardin, a mid-30s author of pulp novels, just wants to pick up his girl Sonja at a lonely gas station. But it seems that the cab has already picked her up. At the rest rooms, he witnesses a man battering a woman. Is it Sonja? Rick decides to help, but has to realize, that the victim is not Sonja at all, but a weird woman, who does not want to be helped. And he has to admit, that life sometimes holds strange twists. Unfortunately, this realization seems to come too late.
The story of a heart-broken young man can peek into the future and must act on it on the spot.