Poor Mario is an orphan who had served in the foreign legion. Now he works for a night club owner and gangster who runs a human trafficking operation. Mario is in love with Cora the girlfriend of the boss. Our hero plans to take the girl and leave the city of Hamburg and straight to the Bermudas. Will there be trouble ahead?

Things may not be fast at the German post office, but they're a lot of fun: postal supervisor Max Sparwein knows a thing or two about it, because he really can't complain about boring and monotonous service on his tour through the city. This is also the experience of journalist Mara Schönwetter, who accompanies him on his walks up and down the stairs to write a report.

Three girls from Hamburg become stars in an unusual way. Annabella is a poor girl who meets a porn producer who promises her the lead role in his latest big budget erotic movie. Marianne is a young medical student who pays her bills by working in a local bar. One day she gets noticed. Susanne is a hustler, who's approached by a shady photographer who asks her to pose for him for an erotic photo spread. However, he might actually be a pimp and his business might be just a cover for a prostitution ring.

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nil, he increases his criminal portfolio. But when he steals Nil's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home in Berlin, where his attempts to fit in are doomed from the start. Returning to Hamburg, he starts a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nil, whose revenge is merciless.

For business reasons, Rosemary is supposed to marry Peter, a stranger to her, according to her father's wishes. However, while fleeing from America back to Europe, Rosemary and Peter meet under assumed names and fall in love.

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.

Harry, a timpanist and pyromaniac, and Ginamove into the same apartment due to Hamburg's housing shortage. This is the beginning of a wonderful enmity, with Harry, who has been tried and tested in marital warfare, and relationship terrorist Gina proving to be quite equal opponents.

A young couple gets married. Michael is a photographer, Marianne is the model. Shortly after the wedding, Marianne goes to the Parisian street prostitution, where she has much success, while the marriage slowly falls apart.

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.

Leo suffers from priapism. His biggest goal is to find healing, but this endeavor turns out not to be easy.