Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this occasion leaves Thomas Weidmann his girlfriend and flees because of his botched university career from the city of Berlin back to his native village. At the party, he meets Kerstin Werner, whose life has just come out of joint - her marriage is broken and her husband Jürgen on the jump to another, younger woman.
잃어버린 딸을 찾아 베를린을 정기적으로 방문하는 프랑수아즈. 청소년 보호소에 몸을 의탁하게 된 니나와 보호소에서 만난 토니. 세상과의 소통을 간절히 희망하는 소외된 세 여자는 불안정해 보이지만 친밀함으로 연결되어 있다. 우연히 프랑수아즈는 니나를 만나 그녀에게서 신기할 정도로 자신을 닮은 모습을 발견한다. 또한 잃어버린 딸의 어린시절 얼굴에 난 상처와 같은 상처를 니나의 얼굴에서 발견하고 새로운 희망을 찾는다.
Den Traum vom Lebensabend im sonnigen Spanien haben sich inzwischen immer mehr Deutsche erfüllt. Die iberische Halbinsel wird bei Aussteigern immer beliebter. Eher zufällig kommt in Peter Lichtefelds „Playa Del Futuro“, seinem erst zweiten Projekt in Spielfilmlänge, der Protagonist mit diesem Lebensziel in Berührung, denn eigentlich ist er nur auf der Suche nach einem besseren Job und seiner großen Liebe.
Emil is an elderly circus director. His pleasant and all-too-frequent duty is to greet people from every village in the land. Again and again the tired old fighter refuses to stop and wonder whether it is worthwhile - though this is the question foremost in his mind.
