On vacation at a remote house by the sea a family is faced with a disturbing reality, when lost memories urge to the surface and slowly fades out, what seemed safe once - as well as the past can't be washed away.

Stan Moereels is found dead. Was it suicide, or was he killed? Stan's foster-child Jana Meyer decides to investigate. Alexander Vorlat doesn't make it easy for her. He has his own reasons to make it difficult for everyone around him.

Andrea is a teacher at a gymnasium in Lübeck. She prefers to convince her students with arguments rather than punishments. But it can also be very specific: For example, when it comes to averting the advances of her problem student Niklas. He has fallen in love with her, much to the grief of his girlfriend and classmate Lisa. On a school trip, the situation comes to a head, Andrea feels increasingly pressurized by Niklas. Her husband Michael is not much help in this situation - the dentist has just started a new job and only his research in mind. Jealous Lisa tells in school that they do have a relationship, which makes their marriage very much tested.

A square magnet skitters across a bare courtyard, watched by a puppet from the window. It gradually attracts iron filings, which progressively coat the entire exterior of the building. 　　The puppet turns from the window and looks in a bowl on the table in front of him. It is also full of iron filings, swaying in a similar motion. As dozens of spoons emerge from the wall behind him, his own spoon starts to vibrate on the table. He reaches for it...

She gets short of breath from incense cleansing rituals, dream diaries, wish lists that are supposed to be thrown into the fire bowl and other such esoteric hocus-pocus. At a winter solstice party thrown by her older sister Svea just before Christmas, the more rational climate researcher Liane encounters a world that is foreign to her. The scientist meets Mani, who is walking the spiritual path and who somehow fascinates her despite all the differences. Her relationship with her long-time boyfriend Philipp is less good. After an argument, he flies to Gomera alone. She stays behind, not only worrying about the weather being far too warm, but also has to put up with her Christmas-crazy neighbor and his family and receive her conspiracy-obsessed in-laws-to-be while Mani stays overnight with her. On Christmas Eve, fate and the weather really start to shake up Liane.