Reiff für die Insel

After catching her boss and partner with another woman red-handed, the good-natured paralegal Katharina finally bursts the collar. She quits, quits her job and starts with her 16-year-old daughter Nele from Berlin towards the coast. On a small North Sea island where her mother runs a guesthouse, she wants to clear her head again. She had to promise Nele that she would finally only think about herself. Because Katharina is far too good for this world: As soon as she sees someone in need, she simply can't help but jump to his side. Unfortunately, because of this, she forgets her own needs all too often. So her good intentions melt away immediately when she observes a weakened-looking man at a rest stop, who is being followed by two strange-looking guys. Shortly afterwards, against Nele's protest, she picks up the fugitive on the roadside and offers him a ride to the island. And since Sebastian doesn't have a place to stay there, she takes him to her mother's house without further ado. Although he gratefully looks for the run at the next opportunity, Katharina senses that her acquaintance by chance is in serious trouble. The slightly awkward-looking Sebastian, however, not only awakens her helper instinct. She is drawn to him in other ways too. At the same time, Sebastian arouses the suspicion of the sympathetic island policeman Thies, who is in love with the unsuspecting Katharina. He has received reports of a shooting at a rest stop and suspects with sure instinct that the mysterious island visitor is involved in the matter. At the same time, Katharina gradually succeeds in coaxing the reasons for his escape from Sebastian. When the two shady chasers appear, Thies and the other islanders lead them around the nose - and in the end they find out the amazing truth about the game of hide-and-seek.

The world still seems all right on the North Sea island of Föhr. The idyllic atmosphere also affects the attitude towards life of Katharina Reiff, who "fled" from the big city to the island. In the holiday pension of her resolute mother Marianne, she concentrates entirely on her distance learning law course and, to the delight of her daughter Nele, is determined to get her helper syndrome under control: people should kindly solve their problems themselves. In theory, this good resolution works splendidly, but just when Katharina wants to get her thesis to the post at the last minute, the bizarre car accident of the new island pastor Alexander Larsen gets in the way. The man needs help, no question about it: actually sent to the island to dissolve the parish due to a lack of members, the slightly confused clergyman spends his time primarily with apocalyptic prophecies and the search for divine clues to the impending doom. Could it be a coincidence that at the same time a series of fires broke out on the island, which the former island policeman Thies Quedens, as head of the voluntary fire department, had to put out? When Katharina's smug ex-boyfriend, the lawyer Clemens Flöter, appears on the island, the budding lawyer suspects that there is no divine apocalypse threatening, but a powerful opponent with much more worldly interests: Clemens' wealthy client wants the whole Buy up the island and market it as a holiday destination for the in-crowd. The long-established residents are of course in the way. Despite further arson attacks, nobody wants to believe Katharina's warnings at first. Only when it is almost too late does she, with the help of Thies and Pastor Larsen, resort to a daring ruse to thwart the unscrupulous building speculators.

Something is rotten on Katharina's idyllic North Sea island: In the popular beach bar "Düne", several guests suffer from fish poisoning. Even if operator Thies and his father Helge cannot explain the cause, they have no choice: they have to close their restaurant until further notice. Among the affected guests is the bestselling author Jonas Mikkelsen, who actually wanted to write his new novel on the island. Unfortunately, the severely short-sighted writer lost his glasses during the nausea attacks and is therefore unable to work. His publisher promptly threatens to sue for high damages against the "Düne" - for Thies and Helge that would mean financial ruin. There is no question that the lawyer Katharina will take on the case for the two of them, not realizing that she is caught between all stools. On the one hand she wants to defend her friends to the best of her ability, on the other hand the likeable Jonas with his clumsy short-sightedness awakens her infamous helper instinct. What's more: the better she gets to know the sensitive novelist, the more convinced she is that she has found a soul mate in him - and maybe even the love of her life. The results of the investigation into fish poisoning are less rosy. Katharina finds out that her own daughter Nele is involved: Nele's new boyfriend, the fisherman Finn, has got involved in illegal business with Danish mackerel fishermen. He is now being blackmailed by them into buying stocks that are not quite fresh. With wit, cunning and legal skills, Katharina has to find a way to put a stop to the crooks.

The Insel lawyer Katharina Reiff hardly knows where her head is: her mother Marianne can only think of the upcoming Inselball and daughter Nele is in the middle of exam stress. As if that weren't enough, Katharina has to take on the case of the itinerant shepherd Manuel, whose flock of sheep wreaked havoc on a campsite, while he himself was almost killed by a falling tree while he was sleeping. What at first glance looks like a chain of unfortunate circumstances soon awakens Katharina's criminalistic instincts: the tree has apparently been cut and the mysterious Manuel doesn't seem to be what he claims either. With his quiet, sympathetic nature, he quickly becomes the object of Katharina's notorious helper instinct - and soon he reveals to her that he is actually not a shepherd, but an opera tenor who takes part in a BKA witness protection program. In order to free his great love Irina from the clutches of a powerful rocker boss, he made himself available as a key witness against the gang. Since then, a contract killer has been trying to kill the hopeless romantic to prevent him from testifying in court. So the good-hearted Katharina has to do on several construction sites at the same time: She has to stand by Manuel, keep the unnerved Nele happy and, incidentally, get her best friend Thies, who is secretly in love with her, to invite her to the island ball. Before the big dance begins, however, the two of them have to convict the professional killer as quickly as possible - he has been on the island for a long time and is well camouflaged, waiting for his chance.

It's preseason. The islanders are tight on cash and try to keep their heads above water with not entirely legal transactions until the tourists arrive. Catherine is annoyed. Everyone also wants legal tips from her on how to cheat their way through with their illegal tricks, but she herself is having trouble landing her next job as a lawyer. The only change during this time: the annual bossel tournament. Thies succeeds in throwing the decisive shot against the Hoogen team. The Berlin archaeologist Jens Jeschen considers the victorious Boßel sphere to be a medieval celestial globe. The islanders provide evidence to the contrary with a black-and-white film: Thies' grandfather once found the bullet in a fox's den. When trying to "confiscate" the Boßelkugel to examine it on the mainland, Jens falls to the ground in a faint. Berit Petersen diagnoses amnesia. Jens needs a few days of rest, which he finds in the boarding house with Katharina and her mother. When Katharina finds Jens the next morning with excavation tools near the fox's den, she confronts him. Jens admits his amnesia is fake - but only so that he can find the Viking grave and treasure he suspects on the island before grave robbers do and the site is lost to science. Catherine believes him. In the meantime, word has gotten around about the Viking grave and the islanders are getting into the gold rush mood.