Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.

Measures of Men

It's summer and very hot in Germany's only open-air swimming pool for women. There, women bathe topless, in a bikini, bathing suit or burkini. Each follows different rules. This always leads to friction, which the overwhelmed lifeguard is not quite able to control. When a group of completely veiled women enthusiastically discovers the women's bath for themselves, rags literally fly: Who owns the bath and who makes the rules? Who owns the female body? And when is a woman a woman at all? The lifeguard resigns, exasperated. But when a man of all people is hired as the successor as lifeguard, the situation escalates in unpredictable directions.

The Pool

"I won't sit next to a boy," says new student Sevda firmly. She brings not only her headscarf, but also a sharp mind and clear religious convictions to teacher Eva's class.

Die Neue

There is no trace of boredom in Fanny Steininger's life. One moment she's fleeing a pawn collector out the window, the next an inheritance snows in the house. An unknown person, allegedly her biological father, bequeathed a fortune to the 60-year-old, including a country house by the lake. Of course, that turns everything on its head. Her sisters Ute and Karin would prefer it if Fanny didn't use this inheritance to balance the red figures on her account. Can Walter Jeromin even be Fanny's father? Fanny flirts with the inheritance. Were it not for the guardianship of the mentally handicapped, supposed half-brother Elias Jeromin. She seeks advice from the law firm "Hackenbusch and Sons". The quirky lawyer Wotan Hackenbusch wants his family to provide a lawyer in every generation - in line with tradition. But he doesn't trust his son Tristan. Rather, he relies on Rita Kopp - the lawyer who has not yet lost a case. But Fanny takes the shy Tristan as legal counsel. With her resolute support, Tristan gains increasing confidence and another client. Lydia, who, like Fanny, was supposedly born out of wedlock, seeks her father's approval all her life. But since he stubbornly closes himself off to her, Lydia now goes to court with Tristan's help. So many fathers and Fanny right in the middle.