Elling and his wife finally get a moment alone together, though he won't tell her what has happened. Meanwhile, Lona arrives at the campsite, where Jasper is already waiting for her.

When Lona arrives at the campsite, Jasper is still in the trailer. Lona sends him home. She seems melancholic, even the next day when she goes out on the lake alone.

Elling receives a voice message from Hans-Georg, whom he has commissioned to investigate his wife. The content is anything but reassuring! A little later, he is traveling with Lona on a country road and inquires where she has hidden the money.

Their colleagues have already gathered for a meeting when Elling and Lona get to work, and it's about the Special Operations Unit raid last night. Now they have to watch the footage from the parking garage's surveillance camera to try to identify the perpetrator...

Lona suspects that she and Elling won't be left alone because of the money, Jasper returns with new findings from forensics, and Elling's mother has stern words for her daughter-in-law Susanne when she visits the nursing home.

Julia and Marie have recently moved to Berlin and are waiting for their friend Brigitta to arrive for a visit.

After picking her up from the train station, the two roommates are very excited to show Brigitta their apartment. She is impressed, but also very tired from traveling.

After a good night's sleep and a delicious breakfast, Brigitta's friends want to take her out to see their neighborhood. They hope that they can even convince her to move there.

Brigitta finds out that her friends are having some trouble getting along as roommates and communicating about their expectations.

When Marie comes home and has a few complaints about living with Julia, it's clear to Brigitta that the two of them need to talk.

When all three friends are back at the apartment, Brigitta encourages Marie and Julia to speak about what's bothering them.

Julia met a really nice guy at a party that the three friends attended. The next day, they talk about how she should proceed.

The first segment introduces us to the main characters who, aboard the train from Munich to East Berlin on August 13, 1961, will face a difficult decision: freedom or home.

August 13, 1961: A fateful message reaches the train bound for East Berlin: The construction of the Wall has begun. The passengers now have three and a half hours to decide—home or freedom?

As the train continues its course towards Berlin, the band of musicians perform a song about yearning for freedom, which contrasts with the security checks of East Germans returning from the West.