On a Berlin construction site, the former editor-in-chief Karin and her journalist Rommy happens to witness a fatal accident. From Taras, the accident victim's brother, they learn that this is not an isolated coincidence: The Eastern European workers who toil on the construction site for cheap wages have to do their day's work under the most precarious conditions and beyond give a large part of their wages to shady "intermediaries".

It is Christmas eve but Bastian has not bought a Christmas tree yet. Furthermore he has to prepare a Christmas gala with Anke Engelke and he soon gets in trouble trying to do everything at the last second.

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.