Black Gold tells the story of a fictional village and its inhabitants against the historical backdrop of the spectacular oil discovery in Wietze, Lower Saxony (in the district of Celle), when one of the world's first oil drilling operations was carried out in 1858.
Dark, a family saga with a supernatural twist, is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. In ten, hour-long episodes, the story takes on a supernatural twist that ties back to the same town in 1986.