Noah younger and Noah older
It all begins with a missing children: Erik, a local teenager, disappears. Then, the Doppler, the Tiedeman, the Nielsen, and the Kahnwald must all reckon with their involvement in the destruction caused by the wormhole. Winden, the town, is bananas — sheep are dying, children are missing, and other children are discovering that they've accidentally committed incest. (More than one character refers to the town as a "festering wound.")
At the center, though, is a priest named Noah. He's a stern-looking man, and he may or may not be the villain of the whole show. More importantly, he appears to know what's happening. Noah (played by Mark Waschke) is the key to unraveling the mysterious events that keep happening in the town of Winden, Germany. The dead sheep, the dead pigeons, the dead children (the kinder!), everything. And yet, he speaks in riddles and doesn't show up until episode 5. It would have been helpful to have him around since episode 1, but we're not complaining — this show is a sticky beast, but it's fun to decode.