Al profesor Leaf (James Stewart), un poeta bohemio cuyos ideales son incompatibles con la ciencia, le cuesta trabajo aceptar que su hijo sea un prodigio de las matemáticas, pero carezca de talento artístico.
Benson es un Casanova que engaña a las mujeres para acostarse con ellas y abandonarlas después.
Está muy contento con su juego hasta que conoce a Jamison, un auténtico caradura, que se hace pasar por un príncipe exiliado y que no solo hace que las mujeres compartan su cama, sino que también, le den dinero para ayudarlo a financiar su supuesta contrarrevolución.
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. The case is taken over by a new team, including Dennert's son Harry. Convinced that they have arrested the wrong person, Dennert begins investigating by himself with assistance from the criminal underworld.
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
Poet Hermann Lons is turning 40. On his birthday, his childhood love, Rosemarie, unexpectedly to visit her cousin (who just happens to be Hermann's wife). Rosemarie and Hermann walk through the Luneburger Heide every day and it isn't long before their old love flares up again. Hermann is rather annoyed about that and asks the woman to leave. His decision, however, brings him no joy. Luckily, he's able to deal with his grief by writing poetry, which brings him some success. But now his life is one big, melancholy drama, punctuated by too much alcohol. When Hermann eventually learns that Rosemarie has gotten engaged to Hermann's hunting buddy, Prince Niko, he realizes he wants to ask his wife for a divorce and chase after his former lover. Luckily(?), Rosemarie puts the brakes on the whole thing saying it's too late for them.
