"Album 2018 - Pictures of a Year" looks back on an eventful and exciting year 2018. After long negotiations, the GroKo will be relaunched in Berlin, but after the poor results of Bavaria and Hesse, the Chancellor is giving up the chairmanship of the CDU party. On the Korean peninsula there is a thaw between the enemy states, and US President Trump is taking on the heads of government of the G7 states. The collapse of a highway bridge in Genoa kills more than 40 people, and in Thailand a youth team is rescued from a flooded cave after days. The summer of 2018 breaks all records with lots of sunshine and high temperatures, but the crop failures are huge and the rivers dry up. The journalist Deniz Yücel is released from Turkish custody, and the tree houses in Hambach Forest are cleared.