Nick Julius Schuck

On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before the start of the weekend now have to find out the hard way. After some unexpected twists and embarrassing revelations, true abysses open up for everyone involved...

New York lawyer Alicia Charles is about to get married to smart John when her family of choices, consisting of musician Will and little Linus, thwart her plans. Alicia's mother Jackie appears unexpectedly, with whom Alicia never wanted to have anything to do again. Jackie is looking for reconciliation - and needs Alicia's help as a lawyer. With a motherly look, she realizes that Alicia's heart is not only beating for her fiancee John.

Henni enthusiastically gets off the Munich-Bari intercity bus in sunny Apulia. Her new assignment takes the globetrotting nanny to a German expat family with two teenage children. Rosa Westphal, who runs a picturesque olive farm with her husband Benno, has high hopes for the governess with the impressive credentials. However, it seems strange to Henni that the self-confident straight-A student Luisa and the musically gifted but sensitive Julian need supervision at all - especially as the family's finances are clearly in a bad way. Henni also wonders about a secret visit to the doctor by her client, which she happens to observe.

Although Volker is one of the less privileged people as a parcel deliverer and single father to his son Benny, he tries never to let his good mood be spoiled. But the miserable pay increasingly pushes Volker to his limits. When his son wants to move back in with his mother, Volker gives up something no one thought he could do - his integrity. He takes advantage of an opportunity that presents itself to make quick money.

Henni can hardly believe it: Canada really is as beautiful as the Munich native dreamed it would be! Her ticket to the world is once again a fraudulent assignment as a premium nanny. German-born entrepreneur Christopher has hired her to look after his daughter Bristol so that he can prepare for his second wedding in peace. Soon after her arrival, Henni realizes that the 13-year-old not only has a hard time with her future stepmother Pia, but that she also attracts trouble.

The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day...

For Cologne newspaper journalist Michael Heinrich, a year-long posting as Itally correspondent is a dream coming true. His lawyer wife Susanne agrees to take her long-postponed sabbatical year there, but janitor Filippo and his hunky cousin Toni still hasn't finished the apartment in Principe Ercole's 'palazzo'. Angelic son Tobias and pubescent brat Caroline object being torn away from their world, but soon take to welcoming Romans. Roman utilities and Vatican bureaucracy test Michael's patience as well as Ercole's frisky niece Maria and Susanne's visiting parents. Controversial archaeology professor Neri offers Michael a 'steal' scoop on the missing main Etruscan sanctuary. Written by KGF Vissers

Elevator-phobic Buchmann is supposed to learn to ride an elevator on his own as part of a therapy program. But when an uninvited passenger joins him, Buchmann needs nerves as strong as elevator ropes.