Perustuu tositarinaan saksalaisesta Mödlareuthin kylästä, joka jaettiin julmasti kahtia Idän ja Lännen välillä. Asukkaiden elämän on kuitenkin jatkuttava. He eivät voi antaa sääntöjen pitää heitä vankina.
Berliini, 1946. New Yorkin poliisissa työskentelevä Max McLoughlin on kaupungissa auttaakseen sodanjälkeisessä poliisilaitoksen suunnittelussa ja lisäksi hän salaa etsii myös kadonnutta veljeään.
"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.
Lena's father works as a developer in Hitler's high-tech forge, where the famous unit receiver E1 was developed. When he dies in 1945, he leaves a notebook with the name Sattler. He should look for Lena. Lena is stranded with her seriously ill mother Hilde and her sister Betty in a village near Fürth. Here she meets two men: Walter Juskowiak, returnees from prisoner of war, with whom she meets, and Hans Sattler. The representative for radio kits turns out to be the son of Wilhelm Sattler, owner of the Sattler works in Fürth. Lena is sure to have finally found the right man.