Jenny is hit in the head by a soccer ball. When she comes to, the clock has turned back exactly 32 years! It is June 21, 1974, the year of the football World Cup, one day before the football match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. Jenny experiences two turbulent days at the side of her future parents - in both parts of Germany.
Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't make a living from his music, but he doesn't really care. This changes when he and his bandmates steal a rocker band's tour bus and there is an accident. Alex's friend Tommy dies and the tango band is finished. Suddenly Alex finds himself without an apartment, a pile of debts and with the grim rockers breathing down his neck. There's only one thing to do: go into hiding.
The go-getter and heartthrob Torge recklessly lives out his youthful recklessness until he loses a leg in an accident, which not only causes him but also his circle of friends to stumble. Torge covers up his emotional injury with cynicism and usually acts as if nothing had happened. But everyday life with its big and small disasters catches up with him and Torge slowly begins to realize that it is time to face up to life and his feelings.
Under false pretenses, Pitschi flees from a mutual holiday with his girlfriend on Mallorca only to escape to Buenos Aires and from the responsibilities of having a baby and building a house.
Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.
Nina travels to Venice to surprise her husband Stephan on his birthday. But when she gets at his hotel she discovers that he is not staying there. Desperately looking for him, Nina realizes he is cheating her with another woman, and also has a son with her. Nina then seeks consolation in an attractive guide with whom she will end falling in love
Marlis and Johanna work in a travel agency high mountain. Then Johanna by Marlis's suggestion, decides to visit a mountainous area of Austria.
After the accidental death of her husband, Lisa Bergmann no longer sees any meaning in life. Until one day three angels named Raphaela, Wally and Asmodeus appear.
Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fair with her flirt and storms off, Maren s found comatose under the watchtower. Missing, Matthias is the only suspect, making the clerical family generally mistrusted. Karin finds her son, whose innocence she believes, apprenticing carpentry on the island where his buddy loves with his father Volkmann. Matthias explains he ran having seen his father Oskar refused ending an affair with Maren, who jumped as suicide attempt. The Brendels consider the due consequences.
In the Rhineland in the 1960s, Hans Gunter, a rather shy young man in his mid-twenties, is one of the top players in the country at Tipp-Kick— a tabletop soccer game. When one of the metal figure players accidentally falls into a bath of photo-chemicals, it comes to life as a blond young football star, creating havoc in the life of its owner.
A teenager who does not have a good relationship with their parents, travels with them to Africa. During the flight, she notes that his father flirts with a stranger while her mother sleeps. Upon arrival she meets a handsome diving instructor for which she feels a powerful attraction and enrolls in a course to be near him. But in her first dive she suffers an assassination attempt. A surfer saves her from drowning, but when she returns to the hotel no one misses her. Her parents are having dinner with her exact double ...
Möhnstedt is a paradise for parking offenders and speeders - village policeman Klaus Burck turns a blind eye to such offenses. Much to the astonishment of his new colleague Eva Mann, who has just graduated from police school and doesn't understand such leniency... When Jutta Krohn reports her daughter Nina missing one day, the village lethargy is suddenly over. A short time later, her body is fished out of the village lake. Nina, a nightclub dancer, attractive but unapproachable, died after having sex with three men. When the trail leads to the powerful bakery owner Jansen and his sons, the police suddenly have half the village against them...
As a little girl, Lissie Lensen had only one dream: to become a princess. Consequently, she has now ended up with the trendy women's magazine "Gossip". But unfortunately only as a small assistant, because her boss Carmen doesn't trust her to go on a celebrity hunt with the right bite. Only when Lissie has a hot one-night stand with the handsome Paul does her life change abruptly: Paul is the fiancé of the Danish princess and heir to the throne, Silvia.
London lawyer Owen Lockhart inherited a distant uncle's grand but run-down Cornish coastal estate and moves in with the intent to sell it. Senior constable Maxwell Breckett's wife Adele, his late uncle's secretary, hopes to change Owen's mind by rallying local clients and hiring as cook foxy local agricultural engineer Holly Heston, fatherless boarding school pupil Toby's single mother. She's in love with constable Lucas Corbin, the only one into whom she confided a grim family secret, but he finds out about her fast-budding affair with Owen.
Actually, the young Berlin doctor Jan Büchner wanted to go directly to the Baltic Sea for a week. But a detour forces him to drive over land. And then his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, just behind a small town called Marienhagen. The residents of Marienhagen take care of Jans Wohl and make the stay as pleasant as possible. A comedy about rural doctors and people who fight for their pride and self-respect and take their destiny in their own hands in their own hands.
Marie, together with her mother Carla and grandma Ruth, runs a family-owned hotel on the Staffelsee. However, as Ruth fears that her granddaughter, who prefers to change her car tires rather than make herself beautiful in front of the mirror, gets drowsy at some point, she secretly makes a personal announcement in Marie's name. Without a photo of her beautiful granddaughter, nobody can even get married even in times of the internet. Ruth hires the professional photographer Niklas, who succeeds in the miracle: Marie is kissing awake. In the role of a modern Cinderella Mira Bartuschek discovers her femininity and Kai Schumann as her photographer the motif of his life.
Mia fulfills her role as a picture-perfect wife and mother of two perfectly. Even too perfectly: Florian, a wealthy dentist who is only ever thinking about his next tennis match, takes his wife's commitment all too much for granted. For their spoiled teenage daughter Sarah and little Leon, mom's all-round service is as normal as the luxurious house with pool. Even her mother-in-law Helga, a dreamy old 68-year-old who lives with the family, doesn't lift a finger in the household. At some point, Mia is at 180: no one recognizes her achievements. This changes when she surprises three burglars in the house next door and behaves so professionally that she is encouraged to attend special training for "older applicants" at the police station.
Investment advisor Maria-Luise Wagner crashes in a helicopter. St. Peter has fetched her from heaven and reads her the riot act.
11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - who happens to be a dwarf, even shorter than Michi is, the opposite of his idea of manliness and strength. When the kids find out, Michi's life becomes hell and he flees. With nowhere to go, he moves in with Tom, who is new to this fatherhood thing, while Michi tried to hide his embarrassment and shame from his fellow school kids. This forces Tom, who had coped well till now, to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers, until their relationship is again suddenly put to the hard test...
Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new environment is difficult as he has to struggle with being a teen... specially when he falls in love to the school's dream girl, Malen.
In Munich, the Armenian Areg dreams of studying cinema with his German girlfriend Lilly. Until her widowed mother fell seriously ill with diabetes. Areg and her little brother Garnik have to take care of her.
Nora's life changes overnight when her cousin Emily turns up on her doorstep. She actually just wants to stay with her for a while, but then the glamor girl catches fish poisoning. Nora has to stand in for her - as an escort girl.
Eva has mainly cared for her young son in recent years, but now the charming mid-thirties wants to return to her job as an interior designer. The talented designer applies for the equipment of a hip scene, but does not receive any support from either her busy husband or her retired father. In this emergency, the old childhood friend Lucy comes in, who makes the prototypes for Eva's designs in her small carpentry shop. Even as a substitute father for Eva's little son Jona makes the carpenter a good figure.
A house. Two couples. Two life concepts. It should be an idyllic afternoon with coffee and cake - in the end, shards, not just the dishes, must be swept together.
For the couples Julia and Knut and Jessi and Steve, artificial insemination finally makes their wish for a child come true. The shock is correspondingly great when their gynecologist tells them that the eggs have been switched. Meanwhile, Liane's desire to have children threatens to come to an end when she is dumped by her boyfriend - now a replacement is needed.
Franziska Wellmer has been happily married for several years and has a teenage daughter. At a class reunion, she celebrates 20 years of graduation with seven former schoolmates, but is drugged and raped. When she wakes up the next morning, she no longer knows what happened, only that something terrible has happened. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, Franziska investigates on her own and sets her sights on her seven classmates. One of them must be brought to justice.
Katja and Mike have started a rather unusual project: a "flirt camp" in Morocco, where men and women are to be paired up. Nina, who has been given a stay here as a gift because she has kept away from men since her divorce, also spends her vacation here - and meets Hajo. Nina, however, initially keeps her distance from the opposite sex, but the owners of the domicile have their own and sometimes quite unusual methods of giving Cupid a helping hand.