Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps the cherry liqueur close at hand. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until 46-year-old wind energy engineer, Klaus, arrives.

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.

Ten years ago, Isa, the daughter of the Gems brewery dynasty, disappeared. Now she suddenly reappears - but without memories.

Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.