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1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.

Years ago, Dr. Wilhelm Zarrmann left his German clinic to start one for penniless natives in a godforsaken part of South Africa. Knowing that his death is near, he writes to his daughter Johanna, who has had no contact but ran the German clinic with her fiancé Michael Kolle, who now also accompanies her and finds out he also tried to prevent companies moving in. Wilhelm dies just before they meet, but his right hand, adventurous pilot Thomas Marrach, is determined to make her stay long enough to care for and maybe take over the near-free clinic.

Frankfurt is an expensive place. The unemployed lawyer Svea Hofmann, who cannot find a job in the financial metropolis and is in arrears with her rent, is also painfully aware of this. Then she gets a call from her old school friend Ute Hogland. Their uncle Walter Roden has broken his leg and needs help with his flock of sheep. Before studying law, Svea trained as a shepherdess and swaps her high heels for rubber boots. The solitary Walter doesn't trust the dainty Svea at all to do the back-breaking job at first, but Svea bites through and soon recognizes every single sheep by the bleating. The change of atmosphere is good for her, she even toyed with the idea of settling down as a lawyer in the area. To her surprise, Svea meets the veterinarian Hannes again, her great love from her youth, whom she left for the sake of her career. Hannes is actually happily married to Ute, with whom he has a 13-year-old daughter. But soon his old feelings for Svea flare up again. Against their will, they plunge into a passionate affair. Svea is torn: she loves Hannes - but can she destroy his marriage and family?

The newly divorced financial advisor Maja Vogt has had enough of men. To get her mind off things, she throws herself into work. There are enough of those in the rating agency that she set up together with her friend and business partner Jessica Glöckner. Maja's next job is to check the profitability of the glider company Belling, which is in the red. Maja spontaneously has sympathies for the traditional medium-sized family business in the Rhön, which has been building high-quality gliders for 50 years. Company boss Henriette Belling and the workforce want to cooperate with her. Maja is only at loggerheads with Henriette's son, the talented aircraft designer Thomas: Maja sees him as a smug macho - and Thomas believes the tough accountant is only interested in numbers. The cool and controlled businesswoman is actually a romantic who longs for a family. But only her anonymous Internet chat partner "Sphinx" knows that, to whom Maja pours out her heart every evening. She also gives free rein to her anger at Thomas' presumptuous manner. But then, from one day to the next, Thomas proves to be sensitive and understanding. Maja begins to revise her negative judgment about Thomas, the two get closer and closer - until Maja accidentally discovers who is behind "Sphinx".

After an international career as dog whisperer with his trusted Dusty, animal psychologist Stefan Suttner returns to found a school for search and rescue dogs in his native Tyrolian village Ellmau with his devoted US PA Nadja Smith in his late father's Alpine homestead. Local loner Xaver Riedel, who took care of the place so long, is taken aboard, but secretly still obeys his 'adoptive father', the manipulative mayor Christoph Wegerer, who wants the grounds for a lucrative hostel. Local vet Marion Bruckner charms Stefan, which helps after a rough start to agree ceasing a mountain slope for her brother Ralf's parachute school. It all climaxes around a dramatic rescue. .