When the young photographer Simon sets out to photograph a motif that has has been on his mind for a long time, he is hit by the tour-bus of an overtired punk band. Concise scenes from his life appear before his inner eye: memories of things past, habitual actions and schemes of the present, narratives and fictions.

A tough strip. Bärbel now seeks her fortune in the West and falls in love with Scotty the pilot.

When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.

Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a violent incident she needs a strong shoulder. Who of her life will do?

After the second world war two brothers, Theo and Karl Albrecht take over their mother's company and change it into a highly profitable ALDI self service basic groceries store expanding over many countries.