Adrian Hagenguth

Berlin is intoxicated by the summer carnival. Noah, 12, was actually only planning to visit his father, but suddenly he finds himself in the middle of it all.

Shock on the night of love: Instead of the tender hand of his neighbor Maren Wenning, the married suburban Casanova Rudi Sterzenbach suddenly feels the bloody hand of a murder victim on his face in the dark cellar. The man lying there with his skull smashed in is the speculative shark Armin Teller. Ironically, also wrapped in the banner of a citizens' initiative against the gentrification of the quarter. An initiative in which they are both active.

Eva Simon is actually a woman who can not be shaken by anything: Together with the family of her son Theo, she lives contentedly on a former farm in the picturesque Rheingau, where she practically does the housework on her own and takes care of her grandchildren Lilli and Nico, while Theo and his wife Marlene pursue their professions. But that the young, fun-loving photographer Jonathan Wolf is now moving into a side building of the courtyard and setting up his studio precisely where Eva once ran her beloved cabaret - that's too much for the self-confident woman in her mid-fifties.

1950'lerde bir yetimhanede, küçük bir kız müthiş bir satranç yeteneği sergiler. Ancak yıldızlığa uzanan umulmadık yolculuğunda bağımlılıkla mücadele etmek zorunda kalır.