Vanessa Velemir Diaz

On the verge of adulthood, Oskar is confronted with an unresolved trauma, slowly blurring his sense of reality.

BITTER tells the story of a dysfunctional family and their inability to communicate.

Teenagers Max and Uli are old friends and hang out together. When they discover a lonely phone booth, the crowning glory of the evening is clear: hotboxing! But the joint is hardly lit, when a police patrol turns up. Panicked, the boys barricade themselves in the phone booth. But the officers don’t even think about leaving. They lie in wait, they have time, they call for reinforcements. The escalation of the police quickly becomes a test of endurance for the trapped youths. And the more the night wears on, the more Max and Uli realize that they aren’t really friends any longer.

Siblings Tonja and Anton Raabe have to solve the murder of a young woman and the abduction of a small child in a wooded area in Lusatia near Senftenberg. Tonja is not only confronted with her childhood trauma, but also comes into conflict with her superiors once again due to her synaesthetic abilities and solo efforts.

A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.

Sixteen-year-old Mila returns from a psychiatric clinic after an alleged suicide attempt. She finds herself caught in a love triangle between Ali and Jannis and is drawn into a dangerous world of drugs and violence.