Perkus and Chase are slacking their lives away in a dusty living room. Finding a gas mask, the friends get torn apart by the question: Is this world outside really that bad?

A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment together

"Captain" Werner Träsch is quite astonished: the fresh wind of social change is also blowing among the tradition-conscious Berlin garbage workers. His boss, Dorn, has got it into his head that women should finally be employed as refuse collectors.