Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.
It is 1988. Jacob, from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.
After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her current relationship with a married colleague. When they meet again later, they resolve to enter into a strictly intellectual relationship.
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German-Syrian Nidal Kouba and his comrades-in-arms risk their lives. Their goal: to locate suspected terrorists among the Syrian civil war refugees in Germany. They hand over their research to the law enforcement authorities so that the possible perpetrators can be caught. The investigators listen to them, but the police and public prosecutor's office are hesitant ... Finding suspected terrorists among the Syrian civil war refugees in Europe and reporting them to the authorities - German-Syrian Nidal Kouba and his comrades-in-arms risk their lives for this self-appointed mission. Nidal fled Syria with his parents in 1985 and the family was granted asylum in Germany. He grows up in Germany, is well integrated, a successful businessman with a family. Nevertheless, he leaves everything behind and goes to Syria when the Arab Spring begins there with peaceful protests against the dictator Assad.
