Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughter Christina lives with Alex, a past love of Anke's and Christina's real father. Old wounds break up again and long forgotten feelings of hate as well as love flare up again. Anke leaves her fiancé to face up to her past. She decides in favour of her child and of a life with Alex.
Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he found another source of income: he steals pathological exhibits and smuggles them to West Berlin disguised as a Berlin bear. His customer is Frundsberg, and the delivery always takes place in his Yankee sleigh.
