Ursula Körbs

Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi criminal Eichmann. Disgusted by the monstrosities that are revealed, she eventually returns to Germany. There, she wants to cover common cases and trials again. Her first assignment is a murder trial against a man called Ralf Jordan who constantly maintains his innocence. Conradi, who believes Jordan and wants to help him, starts to investigate the case - and thus opens up a political can of worms. The backgrounds of the case reach back to the Nazi period and involve officials of the Third Reich, who in the meantime have returned to their powerful positions.

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances.

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Au XVIIe siècle, dans le petit village de Salem dans le Massachusetts, pour se venger de sa maîtresse Elisabeth Proctor qui l'a renvoyée à cause de la relation adultérine qu'elle avait avec son époux, la servante Abigail Williams se livre à la sorcellerie. Arrêtée, elle prétend être une victime et la cour de justice formée à cette occasion va alors envoyer à la potence toutes les personnes dénoncées comme sorcières par les jeunes filles qu'Abigail a eu le temps de mettre en son pouvoir...