Jenny and her boyfriend Bolle are expecting a child. This triggers ambivalent feelings in Jenny. She has clashed with the law and the youth welfare office and her relationship with Bolle is increasingly suffering from their drug addiction.

After WWII, Helene is ready to do anything to start a new life. As a young woman, she came to the exciting Berlin of the roaring 20s, wanting to become a doctor, and soon fell in love with a man named Karl. But the course of her life took a drastic, irreversible turn when the Nazis came into power.