Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes a millionaire overnight; she cracks the lottery jackpot. Luise and her daughter buy a villa with a butler from a wealthy Englishman. The butler takes on the almost impossible task of training them to be posh ladies.
A village pastor and a tourism entrepreneur come into conflict over building land on which the pastor wants to build a youth center and the entrepreneur wants to build a luxury hotel. When a parishioner bequeathed "paradise" to the pastor, which is a well-known brothel, the entrepreneur plans to put the press on him. However, the entrepreneur's daughter and her lover take the pastor's side.
República Federal Alemana, año 1968. Las hijas de un sacerdote, Marianna y Julianne, dedican su vida a luchar para cambiar la sociedad, reivindicando, por ejemplo, la legalidad del aborto. Sin embargo, eligen caminos muy diferentes para conseguir sus objetivos: Julianne, que es reportera, sigue una vía pacífica a través de la denuncia periodística. Marianna, en cambio, se une a una organización terrorista.
