冷杉溪是位於巴伐利亞和圖林根州交界處一個名叫莫德拉羅伊特的村莊。它在二戰末期被美國人占領，但隨後又被劃為了蘇聯占領區。蘇聯人在冷杉溪進行了大刀闊斧的土地改革。沒過多久，冷杉溪的主權被重新考慮。波茨坦會議後，分界最終被劃在了村中的一條小溪上，後來變為東德和西德的分界線。故事的重點放在了三個家庭，出場角色有土地被沒收的先代貴族史崔梭德和女兒安娜、投機取巧的納粹分子紹貝爾、在屠殺中倖免的猶太人洛特爾等等。三個家庭被國界分隔，最終親情也產生了無法消除的隔閡。

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.