Christoph Franken

The mentally handicapped Andreas Brose, better known in Schwanitz as "The Andy Next Door", is a hunk of a man and gifted with his hands. He repairs Hauke's broken boat engine and helps Hannah renovate her new house. Andy's mind, heart and instincts are more like a child's though. When Andy finds his beloved foster father Cem Brose dead, he is suspected of murder because of a witness statement. Hauke and Hannah determine that the old man was once a treasure hunter. Could the murder be related to a stolen diamond that the adventurer owned? While the investigation is ongoing, there is a second fatality and then Andy suddenly disappeared.

Woyzeck takes psychotropic drugs and punishes himself physically. He has no choice. It's his living. With what he earns selling his body and by working in a restaurant and in subway tunnels, he just about makes ends meet. Coming home to his wife Marie and his infant child, he’s an impotent wreck -- and definitely unable to afford the earrings he sees Marie wearing one day. She’s frustrated and the jewelry is a gift from the local pimp. Woyzeck wasn't supposed to find out. But he has. Plagued by voices, he loses his already weak grip on reality. He retreats into the tunnels with Marie and the baby. There Woyzeck is the master of life and death.

The pakistani hairdresser, Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German in- surance broker, Mark, dreams of emigrating. The consequences of a car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night. At the end of an odyssey through the alien world of illegality, they both discover that something bonds them: a desire to be far away...

Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.