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A woman discovers that all her male coworkers in the factory earn a lot more for the same work than the female coworkers. Together with two friends she fights for equal rights.

Julia zu Hohenberg travels to Borneo to surprise her husband, who goes about his business here. Felix does not like the presence of his wife because she is now accompanying him on a tour of a delicate investment project. Alexander Kuhl, a dropout who works as a driver in Borneo, is supposed to drive the two to a palm oil plantation deep in the jungle. While resting in a poor jungle village, Julia discovers a caged baby orangutan, for which she spontaneously swaps her earrings. Felix has no sympathy for this sentimentality, and a long-standing argument breaks out. While Felix attends his business appointment alone, Julia wants to take the baby monkey to the nearest zoo together with Alex. On the way, the two come across an illegally cleared area of primeval forest and are shot at by armed workers. Alex flees deep into the wilderness with Julia, where idealistic veterinarian Dr. Ochsenmeier runs an orangutan station. Julia learns from him that the local mafia is destroying the habitat of the monkeys by cutting down the rainforest. The head of the gang is Sapto Setiawan, with whom her husband does business. Meanwhile, Alex has fallen in love with Julia and tries to dissuade her from taking action against the dangerous gangster. But Julia is determined to do anything.

In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport him to Poland. After the German invasion of Poland, Marcel tries to survive in the ghetto of Warschau. In 1942 his parents and brother are deported and exterminated in Treblinka, but Marcel and his wife Tosia can hide with a friendly Polish couple till in 1944 the Russian army liberates them. A civil servant in postwar communist Poland, Marcel falls in disgrace in 1949. In 1958 he flees to Germany, where in Frankfurt he will become a distinguished literary critic for the FAZ.

"Aghet - A Genocide" - On the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.

Golo Mann is supposed to write a biography for a manager of the Krupp group.

Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp. His parents, the ossified Patriarch Karl-Erik and his frustrated wife Rosemarie, are so ashamed that they want to emigrate to Spain. Walter's nephew Henrik, on the other hand, was seen as a model boy, but he too is as if swallowed by the earth. Barbarotti, who as a single father takes care of his daughter Sara, has his own investigation methods. The staunch atheist speaks secretly to God, whose existence he is putting to the test. If his requests are heard, there are plus points, which the inspector enters in his notebook - otherwise there are minus points. When he meets the attractive midwife Marianne, heaven seems to have weighed in at least this time. Only in the difficult case, Barbarotti has been standing still for months - despite the support of his colleague Eva Backman, who actually took vacation to save her marriage. By pure chance, Walter's body is discovered - in the freezer of the mentally disturbed Jane Almgren. But there is still no trace of Henrik. When his younger brother Kristoffer receives the decisive tip, Barbarotti enters a life-and-death race.

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who led his nation through the turbulent 1970s and early '80s. He devoted his life to politics, but don't hold that against him. As politicians go, he's pretty dang impressive.

Retired security consultant Robert Frank accompanies his reporter daughter Claudia to a prestigious exposition of Venetian glass organized by her mother, his ex-wife Louise Berengo, and her second husband Antonio. At the grand opening, thieves sabotage the alarm and stage a blackout to switch a paste copy with the signature medieval masterpiece beaker. Claudia gets Robert to put his expertise to use and attempt retrieving it before a scandal ruins Louise's reputation, putting off informing insurance and authorities. Present was the prime suspect: Louise's arch-rival, antiques and art merchant Boris Jetrowitsch, whom he overhears offering a rare piece to leading Venetian collector Anna Cantonelli. Robert has a crush on local restaurant owner Mia and Claudia has one on Mia's son Marco, who catered the opening and is devoted to his angelic but seriously-ill son Luca. Robert fails to deliver an anonymously demanded 100.000-Euro ransom, but finds out the annoying truth.

Grim, recently retired 'iron judge' Ernst Blessing lives alone with his dog since his only daughter left angrily 18 years ago. Suddenly he's informed she died in a car crash, which landed her husband, Turkish Kurd Baran Amedi, in hospital. Loner Ernst is now required to mind his grandchildren, which he didn't even know having, resourceful rebel Dilo and his brat sister Hewi. Both sides' prejudices and principles are tested in practice. When Dilo finally respects Ernst and wins his heart, Baran arranges for the kids' 'repatriation' with a backward uncle.

For Mathias Wengeler, the pigeon loft next to his house is more than just pigeon sport. His pigeons are all his passion. When he's not doing his unloved work in the call center and listening to his boss's lectures, he lovingly takes care of the feathered gems, whose names are either Richard Burton or Liz Taylor, depending on their gender. Unfortunately, daughter Dani and wife Rita do not get enough. There are more and more arguments between her and Mathias, which is mainly due to the considerable stacks of unpaid bills and very last reminders. To make matters worse, the children's home where Rita works is also supposed to be closed. And what does Mathias do? Buys pigeon feed by the sack. Rita has had enough. From now on: the pigeons or me. But does Mathias really have the heart to part with his loved ones? Rescue is coming in the form of Ronny Kowallek, of all people, the tormentor of bygone childhood days. He has it in his head to win the largest pigeon race in the world, in South Africa. Prize money: one million dollars. Mathias, the pigeon whisperer, is to become his partner and breed the winning pigeon. He initially refuses: Putting his beloved Taylor/Burtons in the service of the windy Ronny is not compatible with Mathias' pigeon father honor. But what if Rita is really serious about the divorce? After all, Ronny would keep the pigeons with him so that Mathias could make her believe that he was giving up his expensive hobby for her sake. Mathias agrees, and at first the plan even seems to work, but soon the feathers are just flying around their ears. After surviving initial difficulties, Dani, Mathias and Ronny finally set off for South Africa - but the million-euro race still has a lot of surprises in store.

Suddenly go to school again, who has not already awoken from this nightmare? For the teacher Fabian Sorge from Cologne it becomes reality. Shortly before his appointment as a tenured German civil servant, it comes out that he falsified his high school diploma as a young man. In times of a lack of teachers, the school board gets involved in a deal: He gets his job back if he completes his high school diploma within one year. In this way, the suspended teacher not only gets to know the strange world of adult education, but also the needs of his classmates, who want to graduate from their social seclusion. But a property shark threatens to destroy their last chance.

Shortly before his death in Paris in 1856, Heinrich Heine was visited by his brother Gustav and his publisher Julius Campe. The three men talk about the poet's life.

Triest police commissioner Proteo Laurenti investigates the bomb which killed Croatian-born a well-loved delicatessen owner and his family in his suburb villa. His father, dodgy Antonio Gubian, warns he's ready to take revenge. Proteo's unruly student son Marco keeps getting into trouble, but also opens father's eyes to police prejudice. The luxury fish supplies suggest possible motives in smuggling, post-Yugoslavian war profits and drug trade. A chilling execution murder follows.

Commissario Proteo Laurenti, recently promoted chief of Triest's criminal police (detectives), has little time for son Marco's uninsured stolen Vespa scooter, wife Laura's dream villa or miss election ambitions of teen daughter Livia. He worries duly about the beaching of a runaway luxury yacht belonging to dodgy Austrian entrepreneur Bruno Kopfersberg, whom Laurenti failed, years ago, to prove guilty of the murder of his wife by dragging behind such yacht, the official ruling being shark attack. Next is found the corpse of a young 'easy model' employed by his company, which uses 'greased' political contacts to secure contracts, and now his managing director, Croatian Viktor Drakic, brother of the boss's girl, is after the coordination of EU aid to Turkish earthquake relief. His politician superiors want the commissioner and his assistant, Antonio Sgubin, to solve the case discretely, without trouble with influential people like the Kopfersbergs, but they find proof that company blackmails VIPs with photographs of adulterous prostitution with Eastern European girls they illegally import as 'models'. Kopfersberg son and heir Spartaco is found to have his own bloody grudge on Bruno Kopfersberg, whose hand-less corpse is found.

At an exchange of documents for cash, a fire-fight ensues in which Michele Giustina accidentally kills his brother Paolo, making him the only heir of grandfather Salvio Giustina, a mysterious crime baron. The papers are snatched away by deaf-mute Russian street beggar Irina, who ends up offering the to just-retired coroner Galvano, who keeps it from the police hoping to write the book a murder prevented, exposing Salvio's fortune started by denouncing Jews to the Nazis for spoils. Commissario Laurenti gets no cooperation from his superiors, who give priority to another case and the secret police warns him against spying on Drakic's arms deals, ignoring his female goon fought the Giustina brothers and is after he documents again.

Parttaking in the protection of the visiting German chancellor (PM) seemed boring, until a man is fatally hit running in front of the line, wearing only a surgical gown. It's an illegal Moldavian, officially missing nowhere. Commissario Laurenti soon traces his suspicion to a nearby private luxury clinic, whose chief surgeon is murdered next by genitalia-slashing, as Laurenti son suspects all linked to illegal organ trade. He also mistrusts his inquisitive new neighbor and is countered by powerful people, who accuse him of corruption although e acquired his new beach house by trading his town house for it with the recently retired coroner Galvano, who helps out informally.