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The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.

The story of the first cloned human being, told in her own words: At age 30, world-famous composer Iris Sellin, who wants to live forever, learns that she has an incurable illness. She refuses to accept it. To preserve her art and also herself beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom in this way she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being; a blueprint in fact: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment, on nothing is as it was before.

11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.

In 1989 Berlin, Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. Afer all, this is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague. Franzi and Sascha must find ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible: to bring down the wall.

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.

So far, nine-year-old Nickel and his single father, Thomas, have gotten along just fine. However, when Nickel brings the little piglet Rudi home after a trip, he makes a terrible discovery: Dad has a girlfriend.

Seasoned detective Eleni returns to Crete, not only to solve murders on the Island of Gods, but also to heal the wounds of the past.

After 26 years of marriage, Georg and Doris are headed for a divorce. While Georg is having some fun with a much younger co-worker, Doris wants the divorce to be kept quite, so the couple is undergoing separation therapy, and some rough sessions of it are ahead.

Shortly after Michael and Inga Lehnert and their kids Tommy and Tilly move into their new home in the countryside, Michael causes an accident in which the 20 years old Jule is seriously injured. Tormented by this Michael spends more and more time at the side of her bed in hospital, where she lies in a coma, neglecting his family and job. When Jule finally wakes up, they fall in love. Although her ex-boyfriend warns her that Michael does not realise that Jule is traumatized by a fear of him and will do anything to bind him to her.

Ina and Klaus Heller still love each other after ten years of marriage. The ambitious architect and the busy judge lead a family life that is as harmonious as it is turbulent with their two lively children, Lisa and Stefan. However, their love life has suffered a little, and so the two are longingly counting down the hours until their offspring leave for summer camp. Like a newly in love couple, the two want to spend two romantic and passionate weeks together. Friends and acquaintances have their concerns, and Ina and Klaus actually seem to be a little out of practice in bed. Even the relaxed holiday mood doesn't quite set in, and so Klaus' call from his architect's office is quite right: Despite his vacation, he has to take care of an important major order. In order not to disappoint Ina, he pretends that he is only taking her to a luxurious wellness hotel for pleasure. In an adventurous tour de force, Klaus tries to prevent Ina from finding out about his business appointments at the hotel. But chance reveals its secret and Ina is rightly angry. The waves have hardly calmed down when Klaus has every reason to be angry with Ina, since he believes that she spent the night with his best friend and partner Erik. Instead of pure harmony, a storm is brewing and the Hellers are in the middle of the worst marital crisis.

Marianne and Günter have been married for fifty years. Their passionate love has shriveled to a woeful routine. Therefore both of them decide to take an experimental pill that will reactivate memories of their happy past.

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.

A suicide bomber becomes dependent on the kindness of strangers when his explosives won't detonate, giving him time to meet some of the people he's targeting.

It's 1971. Erika Gerlach despairs when she finds out she's once again pregnant. Her husband, Kurt, has firm ideas about a woman's place, and Erika decides to keep the information to herself, instead going to Cologne for an illegal abortion. When things go awry and she requires emergency surgery, it's her activist sister Charlotte who comes to the rescue. Upon Kurt's confrontation, Erika takes the kids and moves in with Charlotte. But without her husband's permission, there's little she can do. Slowly, Erika begins to explore emancipation, even participating in the women's rights movement. But Kurt won't sit idly by.

The children's series "Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel" is based on the book of the same name by Uwe Timm. For ten-year-old Fritz (Jasper Smets), the move to the countryside is anything but welcome. His father Daniel Fröhlich (Martin Lindow) and he now live with Grandma Betty (Regine Vergeen) and Grandpa Oskar (Peter Franke). As Fritz explores the village, he finds a free-range piglet that is almost run over by a car. He rescues it, and a great friendship begins. And Rudi, the piglet's name, is the offspring of the best racing pig ever.

A young woman tries to solve the rape of her friend and encounters resistance everywhere - including from the victim herself.

After 40 years of marriage, Eva's grandma Lotti has had enough. She's seriously thinking about splitting up and moving out. Eva, hoping to prevent the geriatric meltdown, cancels her planned vacation with her boyfriend Johannes and spirits Lotti off to Lake Garda in Italy, where granny has always longed to go. And where, Tobias, Eva's new flame, is also bound. Instead of bringing granny to her senses, Eva ends up turning her own life upside down. Johannes or Tobias? Security or excitement? It's a tough choice. Maybe she could ask her grandma for advice, if Lotti wasn't so involved with her own emotional chaos.

After years of unemployment, a former GDR housing manager retrains as a salesman and creates an "ostalgic" indoor fountain that becomes a bestseller, while his marriage gradually seems to be failing.

Since her husband's death, Gundula Glöckner has only lived for her work as a church geriatric nurse--and for her two children Michel and Lena. The supermother always wants the best for her offspring, which is why she can no longer see Lena falling for the wrong men over and over again. She decides to put in a good word for her daughter's happiness in love at the highest point and signs up for a pilgrimage to Padua. At the grave of St. Anthony, she wants to ask for a decent husband for her daughter. With this goal she is in good company, because the tour was designed by Pastor Schrotmann especially for Catholic singles, inviting participants to use the spiritual power of the sacred to find what they have lost: love. The grumpy bus driver Benno has mostly ridicule for his pilgrim passengers, but the small group of illustrious Lonely Hearts doesn't let that spoil their mood. Lively "Jumbo", for example, tries to flirt with Gundula before he starts his trip, which she deliberately ignores. 15-year-old Michel feels drawn to Violetta, who is as beautiful as she is spiritually-minded. And while professional soldier Werner seems to find his Catholic dream women in his widow friends Rosi and Doro, single parent Margitta wants to take a few days' vacation from her pubescent children. As if fate wanted to play a trick on the happy pilgrims, the journey to Italy is interrupted again and again by mishaps and other complications. As if that weren't enough, Benno especially offends Gundula with his gruff manner. But as much as he gets on her nerves, she is strangely drawn to him. She also finally finds out why Benno hides his feelings behind a protective wall of anger and sarcasm. Sometimes fate leads one to happiness in a roundabout way. This is the experience of the heroine of the cryptic love comedy "Pilgrimage to Padua". The godly geriatric nurse goes to Italy to pray for her daughter--and unexpectedly meets a man herself who gives her life a new impetus. Gisela Schneeberger plays this woman with an inimitable mixture of spirited determination and kind hearted sensitivity. In Herbert Knaup as the grumpy bus driver she finds the perfect counterpart--and together the two form a wonderfully unequal dream couple. Also on pilgrimage: Bernhard Schütz, Petra Kleinert, and Sybille J. Schedwill.

Three couples of friends celebrate Paul's retirement with a dinner. The conversation forces Klaus to confess to Marlene that he has a mistress, so this evening marks a before and after in the lives of these six friends.

Thorsten and Sabrina share a problem; Each of them carries a corpse. In his case, it was a militant woman from the animal-cruelty society, accidentally mistaken for a hunt-able animal, in her case it was her pimp who happened to die under his Cadillac after a quarrel. The couple decide to discard the dead bodies together, but over-active sheriffs, shooting hunters, drunk drivers and pushy whores make their life difficult. Finally, love has to be taken into account...