Can Cleo turn back time? It seems that misfortune has been haunting her loved ones since she was born. A legendary treasure sounds like the solution to her problems, but Cleo will have to let go of the past.
In a single afternoon, the early retiree Hubert Lotzmann manages to dupe his sisters-in-law, to betray his autonomous daughter Bille to the police and to forget his wife Annemarie’s birthday. And when she finds out that he has sucked her beloved budgie into the vacuum cleaner and in the process ruined her longstanding Fuzzbuster 500 vacuum cleaner, Annemarie’s patience runs out and she kicks him out: she gives him exactly two hours till dinner – if he doesn’t return with the repaired appliance, he doesn’t need to bother returning at all!
Berlin, the vibrant life. Only cashier Emma feels really lonely. There is nothing wrong with her, she just goes underground in the big city. Her desire to meet people has brought Emma to a strange idea: she lets go in the supermarket purses of customers and later presents herself as a hospitable finder, who invites you to pick up at the laid table. Unfortunately, the visit remains short. Only the shrewd homeless August who sees through her starts to get interested in Emma.
El productor de televisión Rainer es un hombre de éxito que lo tiene todo: un sueldo estupendo, un lujoso ático, un coche espectacular y una novia más espectacular todavía. A sus treinta y tantos años ha llegado a la cima de su profesión creando unos programas de televisión de lo más vulgar y estúpido. Su último triunfo ha sido un concurso en el que un hombre podía conseguir el premio de ser padre de un niño, si su espermatozoide ganaba una carrera microscópica para fecundar un óvulo.Un día, Pegah, una misteriosa mujer, embiste a toda velocidad el coche de Rainer. Tras sufrir una experiencia cercana a la muerte, en Rainer se opera un gran cambio y decide producir un sesudo magazín de actualidad para la franja horaria estelar de su emisora. Hundido por los bajos índices de audiencia obtenidos, deja su trabajo y decide investigar el sistema de medición de audiencia que mantiene en los más altos puestos a programas que son un insulto para la inteligencia.
