The Peppercorns - Season 21 - Eps 12: Kiss
During a choir rehearsal at school, a fight breaks out between student Ana and her former best friend Janine – and Ana leaves the room crying. While trying to comfort her, Malin notices signs of abuse on Ana's arm. The Pfefferkörners try to mediate between the girls and learn a shocking revelation: Ana's father allegedly beat both Ana and Janine. But then it turns out that Janine lied to get revenge for filing a report with the youth welfare office. Before she can be confronted, Ana suddenly disappears without a trace.
About The Peppercorns
Title: The Peppercorns
First Air Date: 1999-12-27
Last Air Date: 2025-04-26
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 6.8/10 (from 10 votes)
Language: DE
Seasons: 21
Total Episodes: 273
Network: NDR Fernsehen KiKa Das Erste
Genres: Action & Adventure, Kids, Family, Crime
Production Companies: Studio Hamburg, Letterbox Filmproduktion, Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion
Synopsis
Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.
