В дождливом и мрачном Берлине молодая жизнерадостная писательница Коко дописывает заключительную главу своего романа, действие которого происходит в Шанхае в начале 21 века. Испытывая глубокие чувства к своему другу, актеру Тиану, который не опытен в сексе, она знакомится с богатым бизнесменом, который становится ее любовником. Теперь Коко разрывается между двумя мужчинами, несмотря на то, что ее новый возлюбленный, оказывается, женат. Девушка пытается разобраться в себе и понять, что же ей нужно на самом деле.
A 13-year-old German boy, Robert, (Max Kullman) sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy (Murat Orasov) who agrees to help him, but they are abandoned by their adult guides and must fend for themselves.
A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial difficulties, starts out as pool attendant at an open air swimming pool in Berlin's district of Neukölln. Escaping from his unpleasant landlord and his lover Patrizia (a very young Martina Gedeck), he soon starts to live at the baths, and as swimmers disappear and the baths are closed for the winter, he turns the grounds into his own, perfect refuge from civilisation and social pressure, becoming increasingly detached from reality. What may sound like an annoyingly gimmicky premise is executed here playfully, yet with admirable simplicity and a subtle, unpretentious poetic sensibility that one would wish for more often in contemporary German cinema.
During the summer on their Grandfather’s land Johanna, Robert, Harald and Alex begin a secret journey up the river on a boat with a chicken in search of a new path to the North Sea of Germany. A classic German children’s adventure movie.
