[1][2][3] The small town of Krefelden in 1994: 16-year-old Mark runs a record store next to school together with his big brother Thomas and his friend Memo.

It describes a fantastic world in which a cruel creature, The Gryphon, exercises his reign of terror and which, according to Thomas, really exists.

Mark doesn't want to hear anything about it at first, because ten years earlier his father Karl, apparently driven mad by the chronicle, set himself on fire in the cemetery.

Because Mark's mother Petra believes that her youngest son also seems to be descending into madness, she tries to have him committed to a closed institution.

They accidentally bring to life a night terror, a large insect-like creature that attacks teenagers at a party and seriously injures Ben's girlfriend Maya.

By falsifying evidence and erasing memories, the illusionist tries to make it appear that it was actually an escaped circus bear.

Ten years earlier, one of them, in the guise of a public prosecutor, had covered up the fact that Karl's burned body was never found in the cemetery.

Bräker and Petra now also believe that the world of The Gryphon is real and they rush to the church to open the portal.

Not yet discovered by anyone in the group, there is a large amount of man-sized rocks in the church's catacombs, which were recovered from mines in the world of The Gryphon by slaves.

This is how, among other things, The series was moved to 1994, the main character was made a few years older, themes were modernized and the two brothers became a group of friends.

[6][7] Filming locations included the Spandau Citadel, Babelsberg, Heynstrasse [de] in the district Pankow, the Heynstudios in Florakiez and the bar Fritz Heyn as well as the Chorin Abbey.

The production was supported by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, the German Motion Picture Fund [de] and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH.

[6][7] Director: Sebastian Marka Screenplay: Erol Yesilkaya Length: 59 minutes 1984 in the small town of Krefelden.

Ben, who has a secret relationship with Sara and wants to perform lightshows for famous DJs, also goes to his school.

Director: Sebastian Marka Screenplay: Erol Yesilkaya, Boris Dennulat Length: 57 minutes The next morning Mark wakes up.

Meanwhile, Becky, with the help of Sara, finds a newspaper article that says that Karl burned himself in the stonemason's studio in front of his sons ten years ago.

He tells Becky and Memo, but when he doesn't immediately prove that the Dark Tower really exists, he throws a fit and the two friends leave.

Director: Max Zähle Screenplay: Erol Yesilkaya, Senad Halilbašić Length: 57 minutes Petra locks Mark in his room overnight because she fears that he too is obsessed with the family chronicle.

Meanwhile, the three friends in the church are arrested by the police for burglary and night terrors are born from the now blossomed plant in Becky's room.

Director: Max Zähle Screenplay: Erol Yesilkaya, Stefanie Veith [de] Length: 51 minutes Sara's parents own a former cinema, which Ben uses to perform with a well-known DJ.

Since the portal couldn't be opened, Becky gives her father the family chronicle and wants to keep her distance from Mark from now on.

Shortly afterwards, he tells Petra his concern that the phrase “travel to the Dark Tower” could be code for suicide.

He advises security and care, but Petra decides instead to arrange for a compulsory admission, as she had done with Thomas ten years earlier.

Mark flees from the psychiatric institution's employees into St. Marten's Church and enters the Dark Tower through the portal.

Director: Sebastian Marka Screenplay: Erol Yesilkaya Length: 58 minutes Memo shows Mark his cabin on a lake that is regularly visited by slave hunters.

He learns that Mark can no longer return to the human world and that he plans to follow the slave hunters to the mine where Thomas is being held captive.

When the creature attacks other young people, it is shot by Petra and Inspector Bräker, who have now also arrived at the party.

Dr. Peters appears with the hypnotized Becky, transforms the night terror's corpse into a circus bear and manipulates the witnesses' memories.

Director: Sebastian Marka Screenplay: Erol Yesilkaya Length: 69 minutes It wasn't the real Memo who was beaten up by Mark, but the illusionist.

Mark thinks about his father's advice, stays calm, doesn't fight, wanting to make The Gryphon angry.