Tom Schilling

An attorney seeking to achieve work-life balance attends a mindfulness workshop, then unwittingly becomes a killer and a string-puller for the mafia.

The story of a character is told who struggles with himself and the world and is allowed to shuffle the cards anew in each episode. But: what happens if the others suddenly behave as we would like them to? What happens to the "I" when the relationship to its environment is constantly changing, and new constellations with "the others" arise, which inevitably escalate?

Set in Cold War Germany, it portrays the fates of two families on either side of the Berlin Wall. The story revolves around the relationship between an East German "Romeo" agent - a spy who uses seduction as a way to unearth secrets - and his female target in the West.

The story of five German friends in the years from 1941 to 1945. Their friendship was meant to last their whole lives, but the war changed everything.