Cultuado como um dos maiores dramaturgos da Era Elisabetana, a vida de William Shakespeare tem sido objeto de estudos de acadêmicos há anos. Uma popular teoria especula que as peças teatrais atribuídas ao dramaturgo não foram escritas por ele.
Otto is a man from a little German island, where he lives together with his friends. He gets his treasure, an expensive painting, stolen by a casino owner and his female assistent, so Otto starts travelling to the main land with his friends. Will he get it back?
In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.
