One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.
The renowned physician Prof. Markus Gärtner becomes the new head of the planned cardiac research center. To make it as easy as possible for the specialist to settle into his new place of residence, clinic director Prof. Weissing commissions a relocation agency to take care of his wishes and concerns from now on. Although she sends her best employee, Lina Baumann, she seems to fail because of the gruff, humorless doctor. Every apartment she chooses displeases the single doctor. He is also annoyed by all the joint activities. He only has work on his mind and would like to start immediately.
Sissi and Theo are different, as one can hardly be more different. Theo, an intolerant, purposeful businessman who keeps people at bay, and Sissi, a young woman who has not yet found her way and still lives with her mother, would probably never have met if Theo did not go blind. Sissi is in rehearsal as a rehab trainer for the blind and Theo her first student.
