사춘기를 맞이한 11살 요나스는 버나드 할아버지와 함께 여름 휴가를 보낼 수 있게 되어 행복하다. 마음 같아서는 이곳에서 평생 떠나고 싶지 않다. 하지만 할아버지가 변했다. 은퇴한 이후로 할아버지의 삶은 정상궤도를 벗어난 것만 같다. 요나스는 털털한 성격의 소녀 알렉스와 함께 할아버지를 예전처럼 되돌려 놓기 위해 좋은 아이디어를 생각해낸다. 신뢰와 우정을 회복하기 위해 요나스가 되돌려야 할 것들이 많다. 하지만 결국, 어떤 것도 예전 같지는 않을 것이다. 왜냐하면, 훨씬 더 좋아질 것이 분명하니까!
In Dublin, Blake Lester breaks Lucy Silchester's dream by preferring an overseas TV show career move over their marriage plans since years. Receiving a mystery letter 'from her life', Lucy seeks consolation with mates Adam, Melanie, Lisa and Jamie. Angrily Lucy meets critical sender Cosmo, who urges her to set priorities among colleagues, family, friends and truth to correct her derailed life, which she finds hard to disprove by showing happiness. Lying to boss Edna costs her job. Desperate hitting rock bottom, she attempt to win successful Blake back. Her protective brother, attorney Riley, and Cosmo rather favor attractive carpet cleaner and neighborhood urchins football 'coach' Don Lockwood, who consents, yet this fails as she retracts despite good sex while he works in her apartment. Sad news about her neighbor Claire, a breakup between workaholic father Samuel and 'neglected' mother-housewife Sheila make Lucy die reconsider her own priorities.
On the North Sea coast, jack of all trades Knud tries his hand at crab fishing, betting on sports and small-time cons. He’s just trying to score an award for his Shanty Choir, which has seen better days, when his son Lenny shows up for the first time in a decade.
Five old girlfriends meet once a year for a weekend get-together in Southern France, to catch up together in a relaxed atmosphere. But when an intruder interrupts their getaway, the weekend threatens to spiral out of control.
Sascha is shy, overweight and sells baked goods. When no one is looking his hands fold delicate origami figures. Pia is not a customer but the only constant excitement he has. One brioche roll, one coffee and she is gone. Each and every morning. When Sascha gathers all of his courage and lets an origami flower slip into her bag, things begin to unfold.
It is the summer of 1984 in Schmalenstedt, in the middle of Holstein Switzerland, directly on the Baltic Sea. The 17-year-old Malte Ahrens, who calls himself Roddy Dangerblood, lives with his elderly parents in a farmhouse, is trained as a potter and has discovered for himself the punk that has made its way into Schmalenstedt with some delay.
