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An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Young student Lene is standing at the train station; she must decide whether to take the train back to Berlin where she lives or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides--the place she left in anger many years ago. 'Hierankl' is the name of a Bavarian "Bergbauernhof", i.e., a solitary farm in the mountains with nothing else around but Alps, cows, and nature. Lene returns home to her beloved father Lukas, her rejecting mother Rosemarie, her brother Paul, and a dark, sinister farmhand. She walks through the places of her childhood and feels better. Things get better yet when Götz, a long-missed friend of her father's, arrives to celebrate Lukas' 60th birthday. Despite their significant age difference, Lene and Götz are attracted to each other, and they have a good time. But the day of celebration that should have been, turns into family day of reckoning, and more than one well-kept family secret is revealed.

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.

A chest full of gold teeth extracted from Holocaust victims reveals terrible secrets. This revelation forever changes the lives of Abraham, his family members and other inhabitants of a sleepy village in Bavaria.

Two friends and a young woman experience the odds and ends of their first jobs.

From Ghana to a deserted coast - from Morocco to Spain - out of desperate need, a group of West Africans dare the perilous journey to Germany. But their path to the promised land of satellite dishes and a better life is strewn with obstacles. In West Africa, the name "Anansi" means spider - a well-loved trickster. This ancient mythical character represents the survival strategies of a people who secure a future for themselves in spite of the most repulsive conditions. Anansi is an odyssey full of wonders and sacrifices, African mystic and a love that surpasses all borders.

Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out whether he surprisingly turns into a blood-seeking werewolf at full moon without knowing it or if there is an other solution to the murders. Police are getting pretty suspicious after Thomas' own grandmother has been brutally slaughtered in her little fairy-tale-fashioned house in the woods, and it will soon be time for a full moon...

El que cree que entre el mundo espiritual y el material, entre el deseo y la realidad, no existe conexión alguna está equivocado. Impulsado por la curiosidad y el afán de conocer nuevos mundos, el joven Alois, deja su patria bávara y, pasando por las profundidades del Walchensee (lago cerca de Munich), emerge de las aguas del lago Titicaca, en Bolivia. En Copacabana, Alois se casa con Elena con quien explora el enigmático mundo andino; tienen un único hijo, piloto civil, que muere muy joven en un accidente aéreo, dejando huérfana a su hija Alfonsina y viuda a Rosa, su bella esposa, que trabaja de azafata. Algunos años después muere también Alois, dejando completamente solas a las tres mujeres. Alfonsina, ahora una linda muchacha de 14 años, crece en un ambiente de mezcla cultural, entre música, dirndl * , jarras de cerveza, sincretismo andino y ch´allas. Mientras que su abuela Elena se aferra al recuerdo de Alois, su madre busca rehacer, sin mucho éxito, su vida afectiva; cuando Rosa conoce a Felipe (un ambiguo hombre de negocios), está convencida de haber encontrado al hombre que curará las heridas dejadas por la muerte de su marido; Felipe, sin embargo, solo aprovecha el ansia de amar de Rosa para hacer realidad su verdadero plan: convencer a Elena en vender la casa de los geranios, la antigua morada donde viven las tres mujeres. Alfonsina, por otro lado, está viviendo sus propios conflictos afectivos: su mejor amiga Tere ya tiene novio y ella se siente más sola e incomprendida; no son suficiente consuelo a su malestar, las postales distribuidas a turistas de paso y posteriormente recibidas de vuelta. Por el contrario estas tarjetas, provenientes de todas partes del mundo, alimentan su anhelo de vivir sus propias experiencias y conocer otras realidades, ese mismo afán que trajo a su abuelo desde Baviera a Copacabana. En medio de esta confusión emocional, aparece Daniel, un joven estudiante de ornitología de Munich que a los ojos de Alfonsina parece el vivo retrato de su abuelo Alois. Será justamente Daniel quien proporcionará a la joven las alas necesarias, para que ella encuentre el difícil camino que transita de la adolescencia a la edad adulta. Escribeme - Postales a Copacabana nos revela tres mundos, tres generaciones, tres mujeres, cada una de ellas, a su manera, en busca de su destino. El otro gran protagonista de la historia, con su majestuosa belleza, es el lago Titicaca, soberbio marco geográfico de una historia de sentimientos, anhelos, frustraciones y esperanzas. *dirndl: Traje típico de Bavaria

Julian, who lives in Paris with his lover and his bed-ridden mother, wakes up from a nightmare in which a woman was murdered by a man who looked just like himself. Gradually the dream begins to take over his life.

Moritz und Karl, zwei erfolglose Werbetexter verkaufen von ihnen erfundene Insider-Informationen an die Konkurrenz. Mit der Zeit beginnen sie selber an ihre Phantasie-Kampagne zu glauben und feiern mit dem erschwindelten Geld Party auf Party. Doch dann entdeckt Jed Curtis, der Kaeufer der Informationen, dass diese frei erfunden sind.

Irma Caspari has dropped her studies and now tries to make a living as a cleaning woman. Her new clients, the Schwarz family, seem to belong to the upper class. Frau Dr. Schwarz is a judge and will be elected state's supervising judge in the near future. Irma has her own point of view about the rich. She has no problems using the Schwarz' luxurious bathtub while she should be working. One day Irma discovers something strange, Obviously the Schwarz family has someone arrested in the cellar: an old woman is laying in the dark groaning. Irma decides to do something about it.

Mamba is new at school. The bosses are the members of the Heavy Metal band 'Smashers' and only the members of the Turkish HipHop band 'Fresh Family' are in opposition. Mamba does not want to be involved but has to make up his mind when he gets interested in Nadja, the girl of Smashers boss Thommy. Meanwhile the new teacher Pilgrim is planning the play "Romeo and Juliet" which has certain parallels to what's happening at school.

Paul, 10, knows he will die soon because he has leukemia. He wants to spend time with his father Michael, but he lives separately from the mother.

Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.

After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.

The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.

A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.

Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.

Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.

After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.