Christmas – usually not the favourite holiday of the atheist Wanda, a surgeon and feminist mother of teenage Nina. And most certainly not in times of a pandemic.
Carolinas, summer in Antwerp will be different from what she thought. She actually wants to found a new fashion label with Johann in Hamburg. But Mathis turns her life upside down.
HERMANN WIEGAND (70), renowned economist and professor at the University of Bonn, is found dead at his home one morning by his girlfriend ANNETTE (62). His heart seems to have given way, completely out of the blue. Annette does not want to tell the sad news to their closest friends, JOACHIM (70), ELLA (66) and FRIEDRICH (68), who have all been part of their inseparable gang for centuries. Later that day, the four sit in the bedroom of their villa in Bonn and mourn their friend. Joachim realizes that this year's Nobel Prize in economics will be announced in just five days. Hermann has been a serious candidate for the prize for years thanks to his groundbreaking research in business psychology.
Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.
Georg Fischer's previous life is falling apart. He has to give up his beloved mayoralty and then his marriage is also threatened. Because Georg is facing serious competition in the form of his victorious rival, who is making his wife, who has been neglected for too long, blossom with his romantic courtship.
After her divorce, the Munich editor Gitti Kronlechner put her life on hold until, cheered on by a favorable constellation, she threw herself into a survival camp. Gitti surprised everyone with this courageous step. Mostly herself. So far she only knew Indoor Survival. The nature adventure shakes up Gitti's world view, especially since her Venus, as promised in the horoscope, is not in the fourth house for nothing.
After her son moves out, single mother Katrin Busche finally wants a partner again - and unsuspectingly plunges another woman into a marital crisis.
The second part of the series sheds light on the Winters' marital problems. Tanja Winter moves out and enters into a relationship with a work colleague, Marie Winter moves into a shared flat in Berlin, and while Matthias Winter tries to save his marriage, he also meets someone.
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