故事发生在1929年的德国柏林。埃里希（弗洛里安·大卫·菲茨 Florian David Fitz 饰）是一位小有名气的作家，创作过很多脍炙人口的作品。一天，一个名叫汉斯（尼科·拉莫·克莱曼 Nico Ramon Kleemann 饰）的小男孩出现在了埃里希的家门口，他告诉埃里希自己是他的超级粉丝。
刚开始，埃里希对于汉斯的存在并没有太过在意，但随着时间的推移，他发现这个脑袋里充满了奇思妙想的男孩能够成为自己创作的灵感来源。在埃里希的推荐之下，汉斯也得到了一个在电影里扮演角色的机会，一来二去之间，一老一少两人结下了深厚的友谊。二战爆发了，纳粹的铁蹄踏破了埃里希和汉斯的宁静生活。

1877年圣诞节，奥地利万人敬仰的茜茜公主迎来了她40岁的生日。虽然贵为奥地利与匈牙利的皇后和弗朗茨·约瑟夫一世皇帝的妻子，她却没有表达自我的权利，只需保持美丽和年轻的状态即可。为了满足人们的这些期待，她一直在严格地节食、健身、美发、每日测量腰围。这些规则令她感到窒息，她渴望知识和生活，不愿只做一个美丽的花瓶，因此开始越来越频繁地打破这个形象。

Berlin criminal investigator Sara Stein cultivates a low-key style. No superwoman, she abhors violence and relies on her gift for convincing others that she's trustworthy. Above all, she enjoys working in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Her being Jewish is a major asset, since she can navigate sure-footedly through the morass of explosive and impenetrable conflicts among Jews, Arabs and Palestinians. Sara's a team worker, whether she and her colleagues are working on the case of a murdered woman DJ in Berlin or that of a manslaughter out of compassion in Tel Aviv. Though she falls in love with the Israeli pianist David, she is fiercely independent and reluctant to commit herself. She lives for her cases and, beyond this, for a dream of peace in her beloved Israel.

在母亲和兄弟遭遇谋杀后，处理后事的主人公与一名当地暴徒合作实施人寿保险诈骗，走上了黑暗的道路。

A boy feels neglected by his parents because they grieve for his older brother, who went missing in the aftermath of the second world war.