Our wonderful years

- Season 2

(2023)

Altena, 1967. With an iron fist, Christel Wolf manages the family business "Vereinigte Metallwerke Altena", which she saved from ruin after the former business relationship with the Nazis became public and her husband committed suicide. The factory now produces coin blanks on behalf of the Treasury; That's how it secures half of Altena's wages, with the hard, physical work being done by guest workers from Italy and Greece for a long time - with Matteo Morabito leading the way. Christel's relationship with her three daughters is strained: Ulla is now a doctor, lives ...

There's a fire in the guest worker barracks at Wolf-Werke. While the fire brigade continues to drink at the Schützenfest, the Wolfs rush to their work. In danger, everyone sticks together. In the midst of the chaos, Margot and Böcker meet; the longing suppressed for years flares up again immediately and sparks also fly between Gabriela and Winne. The consequences of the fire are serious, even if no one lost their lives: the absence of the injured workers threatens the timely fulfillment of the coin order. While Margot believes she can prove that guest worker Matteo ...

Winne invites Gabriela to a romantic evening before they get to the subject of Böcker. While Winne is convinced that his stepfather is dirty, Gabriela is full of gratitude: He got her a German passport and flown her beloved horse Atalante so that she can train for the Olympics. What is Winna talking about? A heated argument ensues. Gundel is also at odds with himself. Caught in herself, the young mother looks for other perspectives and flees to a friend in a municipality in Cologne. To everyone's amazement. Bijan visits Winne, who is amazed: his best friend is in the ...

A shot has been fired and Winne is injured. Gabriela races to Villa Wolf and seeks help from Winne's mother, Margot. How serious are the injuries? The whole Wolf family is reunited for the first time in a long time. Ulla and Tommy have come from the GDR; Gundel and Benno meet again, but a deep ditch remains between the two. Too much has happened. Tommy offers Christel a lucrative job: the GDR wants Wolf-Werke to produce barbed wire. For Christel, that is out of the question: her husband Eduard committed suicide because of feelings of guilt because he had delivered ...

The youth go to the barricades and Bijan goes to bed with the mayor's daughter Betty. Christel also catches fire for the guest worker Matteo, but this must remain a top secret. Things are not looking good for Wolf-Werke: Margot and Christel are desperately looking for savings, but the bank wants a merger with the competition. Christel refuses to give up the family business and to dismiss the guest workers with their uncertain contracts. In the end, does she have to fall back on the barbed wire order? Meanwhile, Ulla is expecting visitors: Christel has announced that ...

Christel can finally be reconciled with Ulla and signs the contract for the barbed wire job. In the meantime, production has already begun in the Wolf works. Böcker wins the mayoral election of Altena, and Jürgen faces the ruins of his existence. He lost all his money in risky foreign exchange deals. Bijan and Gabriela are welded together by a highly explosive mixture of radical anger, trauma and physical attraction: they cannot forgive Böcker for his machinations and swear revenge. Cost what it may. Margot Böcker opens up unexpected news: there could be an addition ...