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Luise was there for her husband and their two children her whole life. In the meantime, however, daughter Charlotte and son Daniel have long since grown up and are able to stand on their own two feet. And since the death of her beloved husband, Luise has been living alone with her faithful housekeeper Rita in the elegant Hamburg villa. In the meantime, not the slightest thing has changed in Luise's strict solicitude. With the dominance of a woman who has always known exactly what she wants, she tries to interfere in her offspring's life plans. Above all, the unmarried Daniel worries her. The good-looking man in his mid-thirties is adored by women, but doesn't want to get involved in a permanent relationship. In Luise's opinion one cannot live happily like that. So she does everything in her power to find a (wife) wife for her unruly darling. With Charlotte, however, it is exactly the opposite: she is married, but unfortunately with the wrong person. In the meantime, Luise tries to suppress her own problems: Despite recurring dizzy spells, she keeps putting off a long-overdue examination. The fear of a bad result is too deep in the former cancer patient. When she finally makes an appointment with her doctor, to her great surprise, she meets his representative, Dr. Ellen Burscheid - a welcome excuse for Luise to turn around without being examined. But the sensitive Ellen is also a woman who knows how to achieve her goals. And so Luise returns after initial rejection, has the necessary examinations carried out - and immediately considers the attractive doctor as a potential wife for Daniel. At first he is anything but enthusiastic about Ellen, as he suspects - wrongly - that she does not treat his mother with the appropriate care. Thanks to Luise's active "mediation", not only does the sympathy between the two grow - it even seems to be working. The test results are a severe blow for Luise: the cancer is back. However, she does not want to go through the tormenting strains of lengthy chemotherapy She decides to let fate take its course.

The story of a girl who grew up in America and brings glory to her family and village by contesting the election of head of a village in India after the death of her husband and father-in-law.

Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a cameraman. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a cameraman assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...

Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.