Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
La vida de una azafata alemana se tuerce hacia abajo después de dejar a su marido, renunciar a su trabajo y unirse a un grupo radical de activistas por los derechos de los animales.
A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.
Martin, un trompetista de nu-jazz con un estilo único, lucha contra las convenciones y la mediocridad. No acepta ningún compromiso, ni en la música ni en el amor. Cuando percibe que Kristina, el amor de su vida, sólo le ama por sus talentos musicales, se siente profundamente herido. Decepcionado, se despide de ella y de toda su vida anterior. En los márgenes de la sociedad, conoce a una mujer mayor, Hanna, que le lega todo su dolor en forma de poemas. Martin se queda inmediatamente fascinado. ¿Podrán guiarle de vuelta a sí mismo, a Kristina o a su música?.
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
Para Sophie, la novia, y Mark, el novio, las palabras «Hasta que la muerte nos separe» adquieren un significado amenazador el día de su boda. Hermann, el engreído padre de Mark, tiene un mal día y se enzarza en una bronca a causa del aperitivo con Franz, chef de alta cocina que tiene problemas financieros y en cuya elegante posada campestre va a celebrarse el banquete. Sin prisa pero sin pausa la fiesta empieza a descontrolarse.
