An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an affair her husband Joachim had in Berlin. The big house with the overgrown garden and the pretty small town all seems like one big promise. But the new beginning is difficult for everyone. Joachim, 40, throws himself into family activism while Anna, also 40, tries to strengthen the family with new rituals.

While Germany in 1834 is simmering in every corner, the resistance led by Georg Büchner is working on the revolution. Heinrich Furrer secretly prints Büchner‘s revolutionary leaflet “Der Hessische Landbote“ in his brother Gustav‘s printing House, thus supporting the revolutionaries. Heinrich loves Minna. She wants to go to America!… and he‘s supposed to come with her. Everything could be so simple if Heinrich weren‘t living with Agnes, a former prostitute, if he had the necessary money and Minna wasn‘t married to his brother Gustav.

勃勒多夫是一个位于欧洲正中心的“普通”村庄。因为村子的一切都处于欧洲的平均值，消费者调查研究会来到这里，想将村民们作为小白鼠来测试新产品以此开拓市场。村中的大人们对于作为一个“普通”百姓能够试用新产品感到乐此不疲，这使得老人与孩子们苦不堪言。为了让村子能够继续维持“普通”的状态，有着奇思妙想的老人们竟被送去了养老院。 这时，由五个孩子组成的浣熊帮联合浣熊胡闹决定干一项惊天大计划。他们将父母用安眠药弄晕后，便计划着要创下一个世界纪录，打破村庄的“普通”，这样老人们就可以回来了，然而结果却是一团糟……

约亨·沃尔特是德国银行的一名资深投资银行家，与其助手汤姆·斯莱扎克刚刚完成一笔大单。庆功会上约亨却突然跳楼自杀。全球范围内有多起银行家自杀的案例的情况下，外界纷纷猜测约亨的自杀原因，甚至有人怀疑是他杀。约亨的妻子对银行推卸责任的说法很不满，称约亨自杀前留下一封遗书，其中有涉及约亨真实死亡原因的银行保单。汤姆对其突然死亡也表示怀疑，天台拍摄到跳楼过程的摄像头也被移走。到底是自杀还是谋杀。

《赫尔戈兰岛》的故事发生在全球末日之后的2034年，北海的赫尔戈兰岛已成为人类最后的避风港。一个极权主义社会已经建立，只允许513人在岛上，由于资源稀缺，一个不人道的“社会排名”系统根据居民的“有用性”来评估他们的生活与此同时，一支来自大陆的危险部队正准备入侵。

年幼時的一段往事，讓阿黛爾（瑪麗亞道格斯）的內心始終覺得悲傷寂寞，她想跳懸崖自殺卻提不起勇氣。某天，附近的監獄發生暴動，逃跑的殺人犯跑到她家並遇到阿黛爾，殺人犯要求她幫助他逃離，阿黛爾卻提出交換條件，要殺人犯推她下懸崖。於是，他們開始了逃亡之旅…