Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.
Jochen é um trintão, professor numa pequena cidade Bávaria (Alemanha), casado com Ina, professora na mesma escola, tem dois filhos e é feliz. A sua vida sofre no entanto uma súbita e enorme alteração, com a chegada a escola de um novo professor, Tom, jovem, atraente e que não tem problemas em assumir a sua homossexualidade, deixando Jochen confuso...
