Emil is unable to cry. Lively moments of joy and sadness do not occur to him. But as even the disgruntled neighbor sheds a tear in the cinema, he decides to finally learn how to do it. He braces himself against an icy storm and gets into a nasty fight with his girlfriend Ida. But no matter what he does - crying just won’t work for him. Only when he starts to talk to his father whom he meets with every week to eat cake in his car, he gets overwhelmed by his emotions.
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
