Karen Friesicke

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

After completing her training as a hotel manager, Polly Cameron returns to the town where she grew up. In the idyllic fishing village of Cherry Cove on the New York coast, she takes over her parents’ cozy bed-and-breakfast with the help of her friend Bridget. Polly has already put a lot of work into the “Sunflower” and is hoping for a successful first season. The start is promising: at a party hosted by Mayor Melissa Teerpack, she meets the extremely charming businessman David Locking. Sparks fly immediately between Polly and him—much to Melissa’s displeasure, as she has long had her eye on the successful bachelor due to her unhappy marriage.

Charlotte resigns without notice when a less qualified person gets the promotion she was working for.

Funeral assistant Eddie Hartmann leads an unglamorous life. Eddie is a tough guy, but an even tougher drinker. His wife goes down on him in public and Eddie dreams of killing her in cold blood. But he doesn't have the final determination.

Against her will, the professionally successful style consultant Juliane falls in love with the carpenter Johannes and realizes that her relationship with her friend and business partner René is a dead end. But that's just the start of the problems, because the eccentric carpenter is quite headstrong and, with his work clothes, doesn't fit in at all with the so-called high society that Juliane frequents. What's more, she loses a lot of customers after her separation from René.