When seventeen-year-old Regine, a Nazi supporter, falls in love with a Polish prisoner in 1944, she notices for the first time the injustices and horrors going on around her and learns she can no longer be silent.

• A story about the difficulty but necessity of questioning ...

Vienna, April 1914: in order to avenge his mother's death, 17-year-old Oskar Heller takes a job as a stable boy in the stately household of the Grayn family. And then the unthinkable happens: despite his liberal minded attitudes - he abhors snobbery and the aristocracy's arbitrary ...

Rome, March 44 BC: when slave girl Myrina shows up in the bakery, the baker's slave Leander instantly falls head over heels in love with her. Myrina's mistress is none other than Caesar's lover Cleopatra, who is currently residing in Rome - and on a whim she decides to ...

Egypt, in the year 2 BC: Hekab, the father of twins Tamut and Nefret, is murdered during a business trip. The orphaned sisters are forced from their home - Heriset, their father's greedy sister, has sold it behind their back. What will become of them now? Luckily, the priestess ...

Jan has never felt completely at ease in his role as heir to the Senneberg estate. When he travels to London with his school class, he makes a discovery that raises many questions: What happened to the paintings of the Reinfeld Collection, which once belonged to his family? Did his parents sell ...

In 1942, David Rosen is separated from his mother and taken to Theresienstadt, the "display model" of concentration camps, where the Jews have their own administration, their own hospitals and their own so-called "social centres". The Jews therefore call it "foyer to hell". From there, the ...

In 1938, the Jewish widow Hanna Rosen moves to the "Stiege", a part of Hagen in Westphalia where Jews, Christians, Social Democrats and Communists alike live in close proximity, along with National Socialists and sympathizers. They all share a common problem: they are short on cash, and many of ...

13-year-old Isabelle spends four weeks in south France with relatives. Together with her cousins Suzanne, Regis and Philippe she makes a great discovery: a cave from the Stone Age. With passionate enjoyment and Regis' knowledgeable guidance, they find 20,000 year-old evidence of the Cromagnon man: ...

The Chen and von Steinitz families met during the Boxer War in 1900, when German troops occupied Peking. At that time, a friend­ship developed between a German officer and his Chinese negotiant.

As a result, two generations later, a little girl could be brought to safety in Brandenburg.

In the wake of the Night of Broken Glass in November 1938, the Finkelsteins, a Jewish couple, decide to flee Germany and manage to get hold of first-class tickets onboard a ship to Shanghai for themselves and their nine-year-old daughter Inge. What is a terrifying ordeal for her parents spells ...