They grew up with their mothers, share the same interests and are inseparable: Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - just 15 years old. The girls love parties and “the prince bath“, for them “the princess bath“. However, their past has not been princess-like. It has been characterized by the uncouth manners of people in their residential area, their families and the fight for acknowledgment.

Paul and Raimond are partners. They perform together in a magic show. But Raimond’s best times are long gone. He used to fill big halls, whereas today he only just has some gigs in the old people’s home. Since his wife died his life has gone off the rails. He often takes to the bottle. Money is scarce and he seems to drown in self-pity and mourning.

Santa Claus and his gift bag Beutolomäus are inseparable. Only if they can roam all corners of the earth together on Christmas Eve, they can make children’s hearts beat faster and their faces beam with joy. But everything is different this year. Beutolomäus has disappeared. Unexpectedly little Tim becomes a witness to the incident.

Morten, the hedgehog, is surprised when he gets a little brother. But he does not really like this.

Four children are driven out of a playground and plot revenge. The payment: marbles.

Traude Krüger has been teaching the piano in the women’s prison for sixty years. Since hardly anyone of the inmates still takes an interest in it, the warden decides to abolish the instrument, the lessons and thus the teacher. The old lady does not want to put up with it. She takes a piano to the prison on her own account.

Leonardo’s family is rich. Every day the boy is taken to school by car. And the car always stops at the red traffic light where children from the poor part of town juggle and perform various tricks in order to make money. Every day Leonardo looks forward to exactly this moment. He would love to get out and learn some of the tricks. But the driver does not permit it.

Natalie is beautiful, intelligent and motivated. She has her final exams coming up, naturally with perfect marks. She has her life under control. Everthing that Natalie approaches becomes a success. Apart from chemistry. And here she is to be helped by Keith, a new schoolmate. She does not like this at all. Keith dresses strangely. He is impulsive and rebellious.

“Rien ne va plus” - planet music is a mess. So far the musical instruments have lived together in peace and harmony. But suddenly all the instrument families are at odds with one another. It all started with the disappearing of the musical clef and now the families accuse each other of theft. The controversy is the talk of the town. From now on all instruments just play for themselves.

Cheeky Miriam whispers a mean thing about the last player of the round into her neighbour's ear. How does the next to last player react?

Melissa loves hip-hop. Every day she goes to her training. Her parents know about their daughter’s dance passion. However they believe she goes to ballet classes. Background dancers are needed for a music video. Melissa absolutely wants to dance in this clip. She arranges to meet a classmate. But the latter also wants to perform in this video clip and stands her up.

Seventeen-year-old Mamie fled from her homeland, the Congo. She urgently hopes to begin a new and safe life in Great Britain. Since she immigrated illegally, she cannot present a passport. Mamie is interrogated by the immigration authorities and then sent to Birmingham. The bureaucratic arbitrariness gives her a hard time.

Helge Block has already exceeded the zenith of his life. But he still goes out on the sea every day in order to make a living for himself and his son. For some time already Helge has caught hardly any fish. And he cannot run any high risks with his boat, which is rather a nutshell. Gradually poverty moves in with the Block family.

Italy 1970: Ten-year-old Mirco Balleri spends a carefree childhood in a village near Pisa in Tuscany. He loves the cinema and seizes every opportunity to go there. Then he loses his eyesight due to a tragic accident. According to the Italian laws at that time the boy is now considered to be handicapped and has to be accommodated in an asylum.

Kirsi’s mother Ester is Finnish, her father was Swedish. For many years they have lived in his homeland. After the father’s death her mother accepts a job as cleaning lady in her school. This is a nightmare for the twelve-year-old girl. She feels ashamed of her mother who has never even tried to learn the Swedish language.

Juan and Matita come from different social strata. A special friendship connects the two boys.

Ten-year-old Emma is happy. Six weeks summer holidays in the country, with granny Dolly and her many animals. The girl looks forward to this stay each year. When Emma finally arrives in the small place, it is like always. The grandmother’s neighbours are as pleased to see the summer guest as grandmother herself.

Adé grew up in Nigeria. When he was 16, his father was brutally murdered. The German mother moved back to Cologne with her children. D-Flame comes from Frankfurt/Main. When his single mother could not cope with him any more, she put him into a home. Mamadee spent her childhood in a village near Zwickau.

Marion seriously plans to meet princess Gracia Patrizia. Her sister laughs at her.

Eleven-year-old Toni lives with his mother Maria and his dog Strupp in the gold panner’s house situated near the river at a distance from the village. Some years ago the house belonged to Toni’s grandfather who actually panned gold there. The villagers did not like this. They accused him of wanting to become rich without honest work.

Veronika grew up in a broken home. Her mother drinks and the father, an alcoholic as well, hit his daughter. In a drunken stupor he fell off the roof. Veronika was up there as well. She was driven by her longing for being able to fly and escaping from this hell. For the police, however, the question arises: Was it an accident or did she help a little? From now on Veronika has to register regularly.

Alena would have loved to spend her summer holidays with friends in a holiday camp. But once again, nothing goes as planned (by her). She has to go to Prague with her older sister Kristina. Actually that sounds quite good, but Kristinas has a particular liking of Jewish history. As a professor she gives lectures at university, also during Alena’s holidays.

She seems to be able to read the children’s minds and she does not behave like a normal adult - Ulla Harms, the substitute teacher of the sixth class. She treats the children coldly and disparagingly. Without mercy, she has them write one test after the other. In the presence of parents, she pretends to be the friendliest and most understanding teacher in the world.

Witch Baba Iaga lives in the capital of magic where she possesses unrestricted power and influence. When she notices the fact that she loses power and others gain the upper hand she decides to return to her home village of Mukhomorovka. A lot has changed there. And there are many children - how awful! When Baba Iaga meets little Taniushka and her friend Iliusha, she works out a plan.

A boy is fascinated by the shadow play of a travelling artist. The story sounds somehow familiar to him though.

One day the robber Hotzenplotz dares to steal the coffee grinder of the grandmother. There is no more hold for Kasperl and Seppel. They want to procure the coffee grinder for the grandmother again, waylay for the Hotzenplotz and become by a misfortune even prisoners. One is sold to the magician Petrosilius Zwackelmann and the other must slave in the den of robbers.

On the way for the weekend visit with the grandparents Leonies family has a car accident. The work becomes divided immediately. The father has to go on foot to get help. The mother and the small brother make a fire. Only the 11-year-old Leonie stands besides. She hikes through the area and discovers a cave. At its entrance it is greeted by a frog as a "Red Riding Hood".

From the serial "Delirious Tales"

The poor little pig – so well educated, and what for?

Tiffany is a cosmetic shop assistant and dreams of her own shop. She loves the life and dresses with pleasure remarkably sexy. Unfortunately the last some people disturbs, because Tiffany is a little bit chubby. However, she owns a lot of healthy selfconfidence to meet her environment. When Tiffany meets Falk, everything becomes differently.

An old indigenous legend about Princess Hapunda, who swear she will stay near the lake of Pátzcuaro forever.

Taylor loves her grandfather Jack over all. He is the only one who understands the growing up teenager really. Secretly he teaches his granddaughter car driving. For the parents, the old man is only disturbing. They think, he is senile and want to give him in a nursing home. When the young girl had a car accident and the car has to be brought to the service, the parents realize their plan.

How to care the water.

Fatima is Muslimin. However, the teacher insists on the decrease of the headscarf. Only afterwards the girl is allowed to enter the class.

Luise Miller loves Ferdinand von Walter, the young major. A scandal, because this connection is not befitting social standing. Therefore, Ferdinands father determines the marriage with the mistress of the duke - Lady Milford. To lend stress to his demand, he locks up Luises parents.

One can not always selects to himself the people with whom he surrounds. Four children and three boys also find out this. Everything is in a kind at all of outsider: The 10years old Alicia, an immigrant girl from Russia with telepathic abilities, Lev, Alicia's mentally challenged brother. Erez struggles to cope with his father's death, an officer in the Israeli army, and to live up to his legacy.

The porcupine starts to see the world.

Stick figures suddenly become very alive

A blind boy thinks about a reminiscent present for his friend who moves in another city.