The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
동독의 남부 건설현장의 관리자로 일하고 있는 린다는 자신감이 넘치는 독립적인 여인이다. 그녀는 충동적이고 열정적인 다니엘과 공사 현장의 베테랑 인부 한스 뵈베의 사랑을 받고 있다. 학생신분으로 이상을 좇고 있는 다니엘이나 건설 현장이 있는 곳마다 돌아다니며 일을 하는 한스나 미래가 불확실하다. 구혼하는 한스에게도, 사랑을 갈구하는 다니엘에게도 확답을 주지 않고 린다는 일에만 몰두한다.
The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of annoying her mother Hella who ever since her divorce twenty years ago distrusts men in general, Tom dreads the criticism of his professor, a family law specialist who objects to the concept of marriage. By chance, Caroline gets hold of some juicy information: Her mother and the professor used to be a couple and she is their child. With almost missionary zeal she addresses herself to the task of convincing the two grown-ups to get back together. In the process, however, she steers both her academic studies and her own marriage into a crisis.
Maja Wegner is in her late thirties and a single mother of a teenage daughter. To give her stale life a new direction, she decides to start all over again in the big city. She sells her house in the countryside, quits her job, and moves with her daughter to Berlin. There, she finds a job as a conductor for the railroad company. Although Maja soon finds new friends in her apartment building, the search for a new life partner does not come off so easily.
