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Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Against the war propaganda and the ordered heroism, the five 16 year old boys of the swimming pool group dream about swing music, sex and freedom. And they also dream about Lore, the helper from Fliegerhorst, who gets looks from all the boys in her red swimming suit. At the same time they realize there is no chance they can escape the horror at the front. Lore tells them "Remain alive", but Zungenkuss dies first and more won't make it through the war alive.

Lisa, a black punk, lives with her gang in a construction trailer on an occupied lot. The friends are united in the fight against the bourgeoisie, capitalism and the power of the state. Behind the others' backs, she accepts a job offer.

Ironically, on his 45th birthday, the journalist Max receives the notice and he falls into a serious crisis of meaning. He does not mention his job loss to his family and spends his days on a park bench. But then Nancy "appears" to him.

Amira falls from the balcony of her apartment. Investigator Berlinger concludes it was suicide. Police Commissioner Thomas Engels doesn't believe that.

When a blood-soaked teenage-sized hoodie is found in a collection of used clothes, Ellen Berlinger and her colleague Martin Rascher are alerted. For Martin, the find is a bad signal. For years, an unsolved series of murders against young people has weighed heavily on his mind. Now he is convinced that another teenager has been killed. In Ellen's eyes, this is just one of the possible explanations. But she too is worried. Because the sweater could belong to Jonas, the son of her cousin Maja. Ellen had herself transferred to Mainz because Maja is helping her to look after her little daughter Greta. The Commissioner has developed a special bond with the reserved Jonas. The 13-year-old was supposed to be on an outing with friends after the school festival the night before, but Ellen can't get in touch with him there. Jonas' parents aren't worried yet - unlike those of 16-year-old Marie Blixen. Marie was also at the school festival, but never returned from there. The wealthy parents fear kidnapping to extort ransom from them. The hoodie, on the other hand, they claim, does not come from Marie. But who can say for sure about the widespread gray sweaters? The interrogations of Marie's classmates over the evening of the school party don't do much, not even Max, with whom Marie had flirted, has anything to say. Then a ransom demand is actually received. An attempt is made to hand over the money - but Marie is already dead, slain and left behind on a deserted site. There are traces of the hoodie on the corpse. Ellen begins to fear that Jonas is involved in the case .

When 2 criminals decide to rob a bank, a hostage crisis ensues.

The hostage crisis intensifies when the bank robbers decide to hold a bus full of passengers to ransom.