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- Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very different emotional make-up, their different character.
- Since she was 12 years old Helga has always carried responsibility for others. She has never learnt that she also has a responsibility to look after herself. Her father divorced her mother, when it became clear that she was no longer willing to subordinate herself in the status quo. For her father and younger siblings Helga replaces seamlessly the role her mother once played. Until she leaves school, without anything to compare herself to, she finds this life "normal". Then she is allowed to go to Paris as an au pair. Her views change. She wants to stay in Paris. But she could only stay if she disobeyed her father, so she returns home.
- Brigitte wants to work and live with those she loves. And to work at something which doesn't separate her from life. The young secretary rebels against the boredom and hassles of work and the problems her landlady is giving her. Brigitte quits her job, and brings her five friends together, none of whom previously knew each other. She manages to get the five men to pool their individual talents into a new, joint business: they transform a run-down farm into a flourishing guesthouse. Brigitte had assumed that the success of the business would lead to each of the five men loving her more. Instead each of her relationships start falling apart; whilst the friendships between the men blossom. Before long they each find a girl friend amongst the customers.
- Ilse is the woman who never fit in. This is the exact opposite of her hardworking sister Katharina, who brought up her brother, as well as her son and grandson, and who always put her own life and needs to one side and gave up everything for the family. Didn't Katharina deserve finally, in December 1990, to get her reward. Despite the lie, which she has been living, and which she only now admits to her family? Finally, on the occasion of her 70th birthday she comes together with her childhood sweetheart Alf, who only ever wanted her sister Ilse. In a similar way Germany is now also reunited. Forty years ago she fled from her native Dresden to Hamburg. Now she wants to return. Katharine feels no sense of injustice, as she calls for the return of "her" house on the river Elbe. Was it ever really hers? After all she bought it for a "song" from a Jewish family in Nazi-ruled Germany.
- In the war against Kreon, one of Antigone's brothers fights for the king, one against him. Both die. One of them is buried; the other is left lying in the street. Antigone goes against the king's wishes and wants to bury her brother. As a punishment Antigone is buried alive behind a wall. Her fiancé, Haimon dies, overcome with grief. Haiman's mother, Eurydike, is so upset by his death that she hangs herself.
- An 11-year-old boy had learnt within his family circle that it is acceptable to express yourself freely. Outside of this familiar world it becomes clear that his upbringing has made it very difficult for him to be understood by other people. In other words he has the choice of either conquering the whole world or constantly being the underdog.
- Eva is a single freelance painter. She is in love with a married man. She pretends that she never waits for him, and if he suddenly turns up she acts as if she is surprised. In reality the unresolved relationship is making her so depressed that her work is the only thing that is saving her. In an attempt to break her addiction she enters into a relationship with another man.
- 8 year-old Patrick is left far too much on his own, due to the fact that his parents both work. The parents make it clear that they love their son, but only when they are hurrying out of the house, or have a guilty conscience. Patrick's need for tenderness is only fulfilled in his imagination. He has made a family out of a doll without any legs (Mingel), an old football (Popp) and a set of plastic animals. In his daydreams he invents a mother who is confined to a wheelchair, and is always there for him, and parents over whom he exerts a magic power. It is only when an accident happens that the adults notice his need.
- The observations of teachers and students at the Stuttgart evening school poses the question of whether everyone has the same education opportunities. Out of the 200 night-school students who start out, only 17 reach their aim: Graduation from school, which is the entry ticket to university and possibly the key to happiness later.