The single mother Caterina Schöllack takes over the management of the Galant dance school on Kurfürstendamm ("Ku'damm") in Berlin after the end of the Second World War. The father of their three daughters did not return to the family after the war, he is officially missing.
Four years after the murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, fate strikes Nordholm again. A dead man is found on the beach & his wife and daughter have disappeared without a trace. Only the youngest son of the family suddenly turns up at home. Simon Kessler of the Hamburg CID starts the investigation.
Meteorologist Jan Becker has lived in America for a long time to study tornadoes and suspects something terrible when he returns: the extreme weather conditions in Germany - heat and hailstorms in a confined space - have the potential to spawn a huge tornado. But no one believes him, especially not his father, the head of the weather service. When a supercell forms a short time later in the Berlin area, Jan immediately sets off to gather evidence for his theory.
A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.
An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
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