Things are not going well for basketball coach Andreas: He gets fired, his wife leaves him, and then he is caught driving under the influence. The consequence? Community hours. From now on, Andreas will coach a basketball team of players with mental disabilities.

5 people of different personalities have to take a taxi from Munich to Hamburg, as the train service is canceled. The strangers discover that every one of them has their own cross to bear, but to overcome trouble they have to work together as a group.

At a Greek ferry terminal, a German couple is confronted with the existential plight of refugees. Their vacation mood comes to a premature end. During the nighttime journey across the rough Mediterranean Sea, unexpected chasms open up between the two. While Jonas declares the motorhome to be the stage for his own suffering, Teresa, who is pregnant, finds herself having to dry the tears of the father of her future child.

A teenager wakes up in a subway car with no memory of how he got there or who he is.

When being sent to a boarding school for classical music, teenager Julia discovers rock music - and rock musicians. Torn between these two musical worlds, she has to find her own way.

Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to return to the Bavarian hinterlands for better or worse. He reunites with friends from his youth, Kirsten, Rob and Fresi, and the eternal couple of Tom and Mischa. Moreover, Danny's feelings for his first love Susu are rekindled. Everything seems like it used to be. It soon turns out, however, that Danny's friends are all still searching and have not found their places in life yet.

BRD 1982: Hubertus and Sebastian never want to become like their fathers. The music and their shared love for punk princess Debbie are the only ways to escape the stink of floor wax and stinginess. When a cool rockabilly band is looking for an opening band for their tour, it's clear: this is the chance to escape all constraints! But Hubertus' father tries everything to prevent the musical attempts of his son. When they are invited to audition, the situation escalates.

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.