The successful novelist Regina Schilling (Stephanie Eidt) mysteriously disappears from her Berlin apartment, which she has not left for years in self-imposed isolation. The statements of the only witness who saw her disappearance through the window to the courtyard are of little help to the inspectors Irene Gaup (Caroline Peters) and Julia Jungklausen (Natalia Belitski), because the 86-year-old photographer Erik Hamann (Bernd Birkhahn) is suffering of dementia.
The stars from back then meet in a big gala show. Olli Dittrich, Wigald Boning, Stefan Jürgens, Tanja Schumann, Tommy Krappweis and Esther Schweins present sketch classics such as "Two Chairs - One Opinion", "News from Spocht" or "Die Doofen", parodies and music at prime time. The then producer of the cult comedy, Hugo Egon Balder, leads through the evening.
In the musical duel, DJ Ötzi, who comes from Tyrol, and Adel Tawil, who was born in Berlin, compete against each other. Both are successful with German-language music, but in the quiz show they have to be familiar with much more than music. Actor Miroslav Nemec and his Austrian colleague Adele Neuhauser compete in the "Tatort" duel. Nemec has been part of the Munich detective duo in the ARD crime series since 1991 as chief inspector Ivo Batic. His duel opponent is on the trail of criminals as "Tatort" investigator Bibi Fellner in Austria.
Elliptical UFOs land in twelve places on earth. Linguist Dr. Banks (Amy Adams) is commissioned by the US military to decode the alien language and clarify the purpose for which the aliens came to earth. Brooks' findings are urgent as the Chinese military fears the aliens are enemy invaders. The worldwide saber-rattling is getting louder: Can Brooks prevent a war against the aliens?
The son of astrophysicist and widower John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) visits a school where a fifty-year-old time capsule is found and opened. The scientist discovers something shocking in it: a series of numbers that precisely predicts the greatest catastrophes of the last 50 years with time, location and number of victims. But the next finding is even more terrifying: the document foretells three more events that will culminate in a catastrophe of immeasurable magnitude. Koestler tries everything he can to warn those responsible and thus finds himself at the center of death and destruction.
