Samia Obote traveled illegally to Germany from Uganda to hide from her domineering father, Joshua, who wants to force her into an arranged marriage.

Ben's biological mother is Barbara von Heidenberg, who was presumed dead, but now has returned to Bichelheim seeking revenge against Werner Saalfeld.

Joseph decides to give Pauline some money as compensation, but Patrizia does not want to lose her inheritance and murders him before he can reveal the truth.

Out of revenge, Patrizia blackmails Friedrich that she will reveal the illegal sale of the Fürstenhof, which means ownership of the hotel would revert to Pauline and he would be financially ruined.

Upon learning that she came from a wealthy family, Sebastian began dating Sophie hoping that Friedrich will agree to pay for the treatments for his serious, rare illness.

At Leonard and Pauline's wedding, Julia meets the mystery man again and is stunned to find out that he is Sophie's brother, Niklas Stahl, who just arrived from Barcelona.

Sebastian does not want to jeopardise his access to the Stahl money so in a panic he tells Patrizia everything and convinces her to help him kidnap Julia.

Patrizia wants to kill Julia but instead Sebastian decides to let her go and will simply claim she is mentally ill if she reveals the truth.

Clara Morgenstern, an aspiring knitwear designer, comes to the Fürstenhof to locate her grandfather, specifically the biological father of her mother Melli, who was adopted.

Years later, Ella and Rebecca start working as chambermaids at the Fürstenhof in order to finance their big dream: their own wedding agency “Herzkomplizen”.

There they meet the young, handsome fitness trainer William Newcombe, who is still heartbroken over losing his great love Clara Morgenstern to his brother Adrian.

William receives an offer to train with the Australian national taekwondo team for the 2020 Olympics, but this will mean moving back to Sydney.

Determined to own his family's legacy, Christoph buys a large amount of shares in the Fürstenhof and tells his son Boris that some day the hotel will be all his.

Christoph's much-younger girlfriend, Dr. Alicia Lindbergh, pays a surprise visit and is upset when she catches him with Desirée Bramigk.

When Viktor comes for Denise's wedding to Joshua Winter, he and Christoph are happy to see each other, indicating father and son are truly at peace with each other.

Florian and Erik are shocked to learn that their father Lothar was an illegitimate child of Ludwig Saalfeld, founder of the Fürstenhof, and they are entitled to land rights to the forest next to the hotel.

Paul Lindbergh has been down on his luck: his business failed, his girlfriend left him and his daughter, Luna, has moved to Lisbon with her mother Jessica and stepfather Henry.

Ana has decided to stop studying mechanical engineering at university and settle in Bichlheim, bringing along her beloved stallion, Apollo.

Philipp, comes to Bichelheim to use the Fürstenhof as permanent accommodation for his sick, wealthy great-aunt Wilma von Zweigen, whose estate he is determined to inherit.

Philipp decides in order to get the inheritance he has to marry Ana, make her look mentally unwell and then take control of her estate.

A turning point for Philipp comes when Ana saves his life and upon opening his eyes he falls in love with her and no longer wants her inheritance.

When Alexandra wants to leave Markus for Christoph, he blackmails to stay with him by telling her he knows that she bought her state exam and is therefore not actually a lawyer.

Alexandra and Markus blame Eleni's boyfriend Dr. Leander Saalfeld for Vroni's death due to an error he allegedly made and seeks revenge on him.

Alfons and Hildegard (née Hansen) Sonnbichler are the flagship couple and have been employees of the Fürstenhof for decades; she as a sous chef, and he as the very capable concierge.

His most memorable times in Bichelhem include a love triangle between himself, his son Viktor and Alicia, affairs with Alexandra Schwarzbach and Eva Saalfeld, an engagement to Selina von Thalheim, meeting his previously unknown children Eleni and Tim, the revelation that he was molested as a child (which resulted in him rejecting his son Boris for being gay), being framed by Xenia for the attempted murder of Boris's boyfriend Tobias Ehrlinger, surviving a plane crash, being in a coma after being run down by Valentina Saalfeld, Ariane Kalenberg's revenge on him, being framed for Tom Dammann's "murder" (Tom had faked his death to frame him) and constant power struggles over control of the Fürstenhof with Robert, Werner and others.

Alexandra and Markus quickly pinpoint Eleni's boyfriend Dr. Leander Saalfeld as being responsible for her death due to an alleged medical error and they want him held accountable.

Charlotte ends her relationship with Michael when she learns he has a son Fabien with Tanja Liebertz, the product of a one-night stand.

In episode 1193 to 1195 have Robert Saalfeld (Lorenzo Patané), Eva Krendlinger (Uta Kargel), Hildegard Sonnbichler (Antje Hagen) and husband Alfonso (Sepp Schauer) three days in Verona, northern Italy spent.

– Quote meters Some standard internal records [edit] 26 September 2005: Episode 1: It reached 1.04 million viewers, an audience rating of 10.3%.

Storm of Love has been licensed to 20 stations worldwide, and rights to all episodes were given to RTVS (Slovakia), LTV1 (Latvia), TV 3 (Lithuania), TV3 (Estonia) and Rete 4 (Italy).