Attorney Bernhard Martin would love to sell his law firm and make his dream come true: mountain hiking in the Himalayas. But his wife Sonja wants to conquer a completely different summit: Sonja is a professor of neurosurgery at a large Leipzig hospital. Her colleagues appreciate her for her professional competence, but Sonja has bigger plans: She wants to become the clinic director. She pursues this career goal with all her vigor. Apparently she lost sight of some essential things in her private life. Sonja involuntarily becomes aware of this when she has to quarter her grandchildren Clarissa, Paula and little Benedikt for a few days in her apartment, which is by no means suitable for children. Accordingly, the children feel uncomfortable with the workaholic grandmother, who needs a rest after work to prepare important lectures. In this "home-made" chaos, Bernhard proves to be solid as a rock. He patiently and sensitively deals with the needs and worries of the lively children and literally blossoms in the process. Sonja suddenly begins to see her husband with different eyes. The situation comes to a head when Sonja is surprisingly supposed to take over the management of a renowned Berlin clinic. She would like to scream hurray. But for Bernhard, who has so far always withdrawn out of love, the prospect of a weekend marriage has finally overstretched the arch. Sonja faces a difficult decision.

Die Gipfelstürmerin

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie