Martin Schick

Almanya, 1936 yazı: Çocukluk günlerinden beri arkadaş olan Toni ve Andi özellikle bir dağla, "ölü taraf" olarak da bilinen kuzey tarafı daha fethedilmemiş Eiger Dağı ile ilgilenmektedir. İki arkadaş hala yapabileceklerine ikna olmuştur ve eğer başarırlarsa yalnızca özlemini duydukları toplumsal takdiri kazanmakla kalmayacaklar, Olimpiyat altın madalyasına da göz kırpacaklardır. Kuzey tarafının yamacındaki hazırlıkları sırasında Toni'nin sevdiği ilk kadın Luise ile karşılaşırlar. Bir gazeteci olan Luise, sadık Nazi muhabiri Arau ile birlikte Toni ve Andi'nin denemelerini haber yapmak için buradadır. Aralarındaki ateş yeniden alevlenmiştir ama Luise Arau'ya karşı da bir çekim hissetmektedir. Toni, Avusturyalı Willy ve Endi ile tanışacakları kuzey tarafına Andi ile birlikte tırmanmaya başladığında umutsuzluk içindedir.

Since they graduated from school five years ago, the friends Jo and Kati have not seen one another. While one of them travels around the world and has arrived in India in the meantime, the other one is struggling with the final exams of the university. But five years are like blown away when Kati one day listens to a worrying message from her friend on her answering machine. Immediately, she drops everything and drives to her home village in order to gather together the old friends from her school days and to look for Jo in India.

Police investigator Bettina Käser is investigating the murder of Gottfried Rösli in Langenthal. His daughter Käthi Güdel found the old farmer dead at the Lochmatthof farm, shot with a pellet gun. Everything points to Käthi's husband Sämi having lost his temper: he had been in a nasty argument with his father-in-law. But Bettina Käser has her doubts about Sämi's guilt. Together with her Zurich-based assistant Roberto Egger, the investigator sets out to find the perpetrator. However, the revelation of the truth holds a surprise in store for Bettina Käser herself.

Sonja is a waitress at a guesthouse in the Bernese Oberland and happily engaged to her boss Markus. Everything changes when an Indian chef called Rajah enters her life. Rajah is the chef on a Bollywood film set, but when he spies Sonja in the supermarket it is love at first sight. He starts working at the guesthouse where his artful cooking sets Markus on a culinary mission and soon attracts the j