The manager Josef Micklitza appeared at the Dortmund police headquarters late in the evening, extremely nervous and soaked in the rain. He found a dead person with a gunshot wound on the port area. It is his financial advisor Claus Lembach, a heavyweight in the highly sensitive financial sector. While the Dortmund homicide commission is starting the investigation, the news of the murder startles the dead man's wealthy clientele, who have so far been spoiled by rich returns. Are their millions of assets in danger now or are they adequately secured by the private bank Roden? When the only witness is suddenly disappeared, his brother, the nightclub owner Micki, is the investigators' sights. The excessively drug-consuming half-world boss seems to have made contact with the murder victim's customers. Things get really complicated when Commissioner Jan Pawlak discovers that his missing wife is the main suspect's junkie sweetheart.

Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of young artists against the will of her family, applies at the Bauhaus and is accepted. The Weimar Bauhaus, under the direction of the visionary Walter Gropius, aspires not only to combine arts and crafts, but also to find the place for the "New Man". In the student Paul Seligmann Lotte finds a supporter and her great love.

Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.