片名是Tannbach，这是个虚构的农村小村庄的名字，按德语音译可翻译为“塔恩巴赫”，按意译可翻为“冷杉溪”（注：冷杉是一种针叶树，常用作圣诞树），但在电视剧播映时，也可能会用其它的片名。 据介绍，Tannbach这个村庄座落于德国东南部巴伐利亚州和北部连接的图林根州的接壤地带。这个地区在二战即将结束时，先是由美军占领，后又被苏军占领，最后在分别建立西德（全称是“德意志联邦共和国”）和东德（全称是“德意志民主共和国”）两个国家时，这个地方被划在了边界上，在该村中间流过的溪流变成了界河。以二战末期和1945至1952年的战后时期为时代背景，突出选择了三个家庭的成员，以及其他居民、战俘、逃兵和纳粹投机分子等各种人物，在村中，穿行往来于两岸的联邦德国和民主德国之间，发生和展开了形形色色的各种故事。
In the middle of untouched nature, surrounded by forests and grain fields of the Brandenburg province, the fictional village of Unterleuten with only 250 inhabitants is located. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems a peaceful place for both locals and newcomers. But the appearance of rural idyll in eastern Germany is deceptive. There are turnaround winners and turnaround losers, friends and enemies, neighbors eyeing each other with suspicion, gossip, old secrets and hidden conflicts. When the mayor puts forward the proposal to have a company build a wind farm with dozen of wind turbines in order to secure the prosperity and future of the locals, the open fight for the only possible piece of land begins, which unfortunately belongs to three different owners. Everyone sees big money for themselves. Alliances are formed and friends become enemies. In addition, an unscrupulous vulture capitalism investor from southern Germany interferes that causes the glass to overflow.
East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.
