In this episode, the journey starts 100 million years ago. An incisive event is particularly marking Germany and creates its current shape: the piling of the Alps. Whoever walks on the Alps is going on the remains of a primeval sea ground. But also later, the landscape was considerably transformed. Ice Ages with their huge glaciers come and go. When, 11.000 years ago, in the Eifel exploded volcanos, humans had already settled in Central Europe. Thanks to extensive computer animations we experience the birth of Germany’s various landscapes quasi live, and leading scientists explain the thrilling acts on the hot spots.