Bastian returns home for the holidays to learn that his brother is dating his ex, and if that wasn't enough, his parents are also keeping a big secret.
As every year, police chief Krause prepares for the traditional Christmas dinner with his two sisters Elsa and Meta in their inn in idyllic Schönhorst in Brandenburg.
A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.