For a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is growing. Until in December 2015, Muslim bus passengers showed that solidarity can prevail.
Alma is sexually harassed by a friend in a club. At first she wants to forget all about it quickly and dismisses it as a drunken slip of the tongue. But the experience sends her into a downward spiral that she can't seem to get out of - until she has to.
Her part-time job as a pizza delivery girl leads Suri to the house of Thomas, a man in his mid-fifties. There she is confronted with her biggest nightmare: Her parents' sexuality and the realization of her own double standards.
One night in a lonely hotel room, two strangers fatefully meet - one blind - one suicidal. During the night they spend together, they learn of each others differences and similarities and change as people.
Istanbul 2014: Aslı gives shelter to a young political activist, who got into a fight with the police. The police investigates the case and ends up questioning Aslı's family. Her husband gets drawn into the affair. Their lives, and also their son's, start to become compromised. The situation escalates, as Aslı is not willing to cooperate with the investigators.
The well-known activist couple Max and Lou made an extreme statement and had themselves sterilized under full media coverage: they do not want to bring children into this dying world. Following their sterilization they are now invited to their first TV show. The problem: shortly before they enter the studio, Max confesses to Lou that he couldn't bring himself to undergo the vasectomy.
Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.
To finally gain her father's acceptance, transsexual Leonie decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide.
In the late 19th century young radiologist Georg starts to experiment with the recently discovered X-Ray technology. At first his methods seem promising and his patients get better. Soon however, he plunges himself more and more into his work and must learn the true devastating nature of his treatments.
A German couple adopts in Kolkata an Indian orphan. Their child suddenly disappears and they realize that they are part of the problem.
Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.
In order to escape from their lives, the teenage girls Carina and Denise always walk along the edge - smoking, stealing, drinking. When they have to bear the consequences for their actions, Carina gets to know Nikolas and with him another perspective on their painful world.
Following the path of a deceased stranger, the young night watchwoman Zahra ends up finding a way to cope with her trauma.
Isi and Finn are planning their first time together. This becomes a complicated undertaking, not only because of their physical disabilities and it threatens to derail their relationship.
When Mia runs into her former schoolmate Steffen and his son at the grocery store, she is pleasantly surprised by the unexpected encounter. But the joy quickly turns into unease as Mia and her daughter slowly realize that Steffen's supposed son might be in danger.
The tragic accidental death of Xiu the panda lady causes Nele, the cantankerous golf course employee, and Jonathan, the loneliest panda breeder in the world, to meet. Despite pain and anger - or perhaps because of it - the two fall in love.
Derek loves the blues, even outside his on stage perfomances. When the singer wakes up in a mental institution after a suicide attempt, he meets Adam, his devoted fan and a true pain in the ass. A story about two guitars, three chords and the beginning of a friendship.
