Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex.

How does someone feel when they suddenly find out that they are not their parents' son? A world collapses for the up-and-coming star lawyer Max when the Prater landlady Gabi introduces herself as his birth mother at his engagement party. Max gets out and tries to build a new life. In the process, he finds new friends and a new love far away from his family's luxury villa - between the Prater inn, Danube boatmen and racecourse. His greatest opponents are the influential, unscrupulous father - also a lawyer - and his own short temper. But Max has learned to fight - "Now more than ever".

Clemens Andermann, once a celebrated stage and film star, now an equally successful industrialist, is firmly convinced that his son Andreas is studying chemistry in the idyllic university town of Freylangen. But he is completely mistaken. In reality, his offspring has secretly been hired by theater director Löwe to play Romeo. He would also love to play the role to his stage Juliet, the charming guest star Monika Holl. Then the telegram announcing his father's visit hits like a bombshell. Together with his friend Oskar, Andreas tries to keep the deception going by impersonating his father's doppelganger – an undertaking that initially descends into utter chaos and ultimately leads to a happy ending.

A movie theater in the suburbs of Vienna. At the end of the show, a corpse is suddenly sitting in the auditorium. The mysterious tie murderer has struck again. Together with her friend Schorsch - the head waiter of the "Nachtigall" - the cinema owner Hermine wants to get rid of the "business-damaging" corpse inconspicuously. Mutual suspicions begin among the patrons of the restaurant.

Twelve classmates meet up again after thirty years. They chat, banter a little - and suddenly the mood changes. Because it turns out that the envied manager Iris is terminally ill...

Nina is married to the conservative mayor Robert von der Heyden. The lawyer finally wants to step out of Robert's shadow. Now she learns from the television that her husband is once again running as a top candidate against all agreements. Nina's disappointment is compounded when she catches her husband with his French PR consultant Jacqueline. Her old party friend Philipp awakens the ambition of the once active local politician. She challenges her husband.

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.