Claire Lynam, restorer in Dubliner City Gallery, loved banker Mark Gallagher, who dies in a car crash. Not even pregnant buddy colleague Fiona Sullivan can divert Claire. Since Claire painted Mark's portrait, he appears to her. Claire clings to this illusion. Fiona drags her to an opening party of Sean Bennett's artistic furniture shop. The former arts teacher approaches Claire as would be artist and as woman. Claire discovers she must let go. As the crash trial approaches, Marks parents Gerald and Vera Gallagher contact his ex. Discovering Sean caused Mark's fatal accident, Claire breaks up and plans to emigrate to the USA, but Fiona reminds her of godmother promises.
The successful journalist Linda (Thekla Carola Wied) depends on their job to the nails to finally spend a quiet life with the retired Latin teacher Jacob (Günther Maria Halmer). But yet they have reckoned without their busy adult children Leonie (Julia Brendler) and Thomas (Jens Atzorn) made the constantly unload their triplets care with grandparents. Then, when even a previous love of Thomas Jakob is around the corner and another grandson in his luggage, the pensioner is finally overwhelmed. He does everything it can to keep the delicate origin of the baby a secret. Finally, Thomas and Leonie want to soon give the knot.
Linda Rosenau cares only about her job. As editor-in-chief of a successful women's magazine, she must always stay at the top edge. There is hardly time for her adult daughter Leonie and her three little grandchildren; the stressed-out Leonie has to go to hospital after a fainting spell and Linda has no choice but to take care of the babies - which, as it turned out, are the result of a one-night stand. Father of the children is untraceable, but Linda senses the grandfather of the cute triplet in the widowed teacher Dr. Jakob Buchmann...
The firefighter Erik wants to make a proposal to his girlfriend Sofie, but at the crucial moment sparkles the attractive Melissa in between. When Sofie learns that Erik had a fleeting affair with Melissa on Carnival, a world collapses for her. But the two gather again, as Erik promises high and holy that such a thing will never happen again. To underline the seriousness of his intentions, he makes her an unconventional offer: he "gives" her an infidelity. He should not have done that, because suddenly he threatens to lose Sofie to his best friend.