나치가 기승을 부리던 1938년의 독일, 어린 소녀 리젤 메밍거(소피 넬리스)가 한스(제프리 러쉬)와 로사(에밀리 왓슨) 부부에게 입양된다. 엄마와의 이별과 남동생의 죽음을 겪은 리젤은 따뜻하고 자상한 한스에게 글을 배우고, 함께 책을 읽으면서 마음의 위안을 찾는다. 또한 흑인 육상선수 제시 오언스를 영웅처럼 생각하는 또래 소년 루디(니코 리어쉬)와 단짝 친구가 되어 새로운 생활에 적응해간다. 그 후 한스는 은인의 아들인 유대인 청년 맥스(벤 슈네처)를 지하실에 숨겨주게 된다. 리젤은 세상과 고립되어 지내는 맥스에게 책을 구해다주고 자신만의 단어로 바깥 풍경을 들려준다. 그런 리젤에게 맥스는 글을 써볼 것을 격려해준다. 이처럼 두 사람이 특별한 우정을 쌓아가는 동안, 2차 대전은 점점 격렬해지고 유대인에 대한 핍박도 더욱 거세지는데…
Peter (39) has slipped into the role of the houseman over the years, because his wife Elisabeth (42) is traveling a lot for work and he takes care of the children Robby (15) and Laura (8). Peter learns that Elisabeth wants to go to Africa with her family. Due to the death of his mother Hedi, the soul situation Peters gets more and more out of balance. When he also learns that Elisabeth has already given her boss half a promise to go to Africa for two years, Peter feels ignored and ignored. It begins a blessing of blame, in which he gets into an emotional dead end.
Nora is fourteen and lives with her parents in a quiet Berlin suburb. She is a romantic introvert who spends her day retreated into her own enchanted dreamworld. Her parents, Anette and Uwe, are busy trying to handle reality; both are wrestling with unrealized hopes and dreams along with the added troubles caused by Anette's return to her studies and Uwe's struggling business. When Thomas, a former lover of Anette's and his family move in next door, the already fragile foundations of Nora's family are rocked.
Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.
A woman travels by train. She is trapped between her memories of a love affair she had ended and her search for freedom. Her destiny depends on the imagination of a scrip writer who is writing a story for a film.
Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what appears to be a harmonious and liberal family. But the girls discover how quickly their attractive world can fall apart when, at a hip nightclub, they happen to see Steffi's father in the arms of another woman. Steffi is shocked, her trust in her small perfect world shaken to the core. She can only think of one thing: revenge.
