- Anam Wagner, a bisexual Belgium-based writer, comes back to his hometown where he has a hard time coping with his family's checkered past.
- Marcus visits his hotel group's UAE desert resort in Abu Dhabi for business deals with crafty locals and a moody heiress. Single mother Renate Frey seems to seek a father for her fine son Tobias. The boy takes to local yacht tour captain Lutz Kemper and vice versa, but that's no coincidence.