No verão de 1979, na Alemanha Oriental, uma família bola um ousado plano para finalmente conseguir deixar o local: montar um grande balão caseiro que irá flutuar até a fronteira ocidental e repousar naturalmente logo depois. No entanto, na primeira tentativa, o clima instável faz com que eles pratiquem um pouso forçado e as autoridades são avisadas, fazendo com que a família corra contra o tempo.
Burned out and lonely Rocky is almost 50 years old and has seen better times as a womanizer. One day, Thorben shows up at his door claiming to be his son. He is trying to get advice on how to be successful with women.
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.
Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.
Damon is 27 years old, tattooed, sports a Mohawk haircut and works as a prostitute. Actually, at his age, he is almost too old for all of this and soon he will have to decide whether to remain part of that milieu and eventually destroy himself or find a way out.
A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station. When police arrives he escapes in a train and gets over the border to the Czech Republic. There he meets a wild Czech girl and falls in love with her. Together they try to go to Berlin without having money. A fine road movie about two young people trying to find their way.
Esta sequência de Asas do Desejo de Wenders acompanha novamente um grupo de anjos que observam saudosamente a vida humana. Feito seis anos mais tarde, Berlim é um lugar muito diferente do filme anterior: unificada no papel, mas governada pelo crime, pela corrupção e pelos americanos.
