37 Sekunden - Season 1

The 55-year-old rock bard Carsten is preparing for a furious comeback tour. At his birthday party, which his newly married daughter Clara and his second wife Maren are throwing for him, an unexpected guest turns up: Leonie, Clara's best friend. Nobody suspects that the talented singer has not just come to sing a surprise serenade. The 32-year-old has been having an affair for months with the artist, whose politically poetic music she has loved since childhood. Although both know it is over, they become passionately closer again away from the party. But when Leonie doesn't want sex, Carsten ignores her "no" ...

Clara is in a dilemma. As an idealistic lawyer, she is fighting to ensure that rapists do not go unpunished. What her friend Leonie tells her in confidence and later posts on social media - without mentioning her name - is normally a clear case of sexual violence for Clara. However, the fact that her father, the popular singer-songwriter Carsten, is the accused makes things completely different. Now the lawyer wants to prevent the anonymous accusations from turning into a scandal that could destroy Carsten's career and family. Meanwhile, Leonie is trying to carry on as if nothing had happened. But this is just as difficult for her as it is for Clara, who has to make a decision.

Leonie has reported Carsten! Now the popular artist must face the accusation of rape. Carsten goes to the police on his own initiative: he is firmly convinced that he did not act against the will of his ex-lover. While he wants to refute the accusations and make it look like the revenge of someone who has been abandoned, his daughter Clara fears a scandal. Against her convictions, she goes along with the hard line of the lawyer Hauser. This is exactly what Leonie's lawyer Sonko expects, who prepares her client for a dirty business. But the young artist will not allow herself to be intimidated or bought by Carsten's record company. She wants to bring the truth to light - for herself!

Clara is in a terrible dilemma: In order to defend her father Carsten against the accusation of rape, the idealistic lawyer must break her ethical principles and betray her best friend. Leonie is put under pressure by the scandal reports in the newspaper. While she wants her former life back, Carsten's tough lawyer Hauser is aiming for an acquittal with his "slut strategy". The defense is using every means possible to drag Leonie through the mud as a disappointed lover. Meanwhile, Carsten is trying to promote his tour and his album as if nothing had happened. But the accusation is becoming more and more of a problem for him.

Carsten has to face the accusation in court that he raped his ex-lover Leonie. His lawyer Hauser's "slut strategy" to discredit the victim, as well as the prejudgment on social media, are heating up the mood. Carsten's daughter Clara is her best friend's toughest opponent. He can also rely on his wife Maren, who demonstratively stands by him in the courtroom. Of all people, their son Jonas, who is in dispute with his father, threatens to blow up the defense with his testimony. While the parties to the trial are arguing about the law, the victim and the defendant are concerned about something else.

Carsten and Leonie want to end the mudslinging in their own way. She hopes that he will finally realize that he acted against her will. He tries to find a way for her to accept his point of view - without admitting to rape. Meanwhile, Clara has no scruples about getting her father acquitted. She is relying entirely on the ruthlessness of the lawyer Hauser. She blackmails her half-brother Jonas, telling him to lie in his father's interest if necessary. While Leonie is increasingly under pressure at the trial, Carsten also begins to lose his nerve.