The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
The gentle inhabitants of a quaint Berlin apartment house, damaged by the Second World War but possessing an elegance of its own, love the place where they live, with its motto Liebe das Leben-Lebe das Lieben (Love Living, Live Loving) emblazoned above the door. Their love for it only increases when they learn that it is threatened by a bank redevelopment project. Among the apartment-dwellers are an elderly couple (Brigitte Mira and Erhardt Dhein) who have toured the world together.
Una cama antigua relata historias apasionadas sobre varias personas que han hecho el amor con ella durante las décadas del siglo XX. Dichas personas incluyen a una joven virgen , una prostituta astuta que ayuda a una mujer a vengarse de su marido infiel, un soldado alemán que lucha en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que está de permiso por dos horas, y una pareja moderna y despreocupada.
The starting point of the plot is a Men's club, which serves both as a meeting place as well as an alibi by unfaithful husbands. Interspersed between the sex scenes are reporters' questions on alleged passersby about marital fidelity and infidelity.
