Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized. The outwardly shiny façade of Berlin, the capital of the Reich, reveals nothing of the unequal struggle of young people against the increasing oppression...

It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads her to the fashion world of the GDR. The editor-in-chief Elsa Wilbrodt put her on the cover of Sibylle, the fashion magazine of the GDR. In the Berlin underground scene she made the acquaintance of the gay fashion designer Rudi and the photographer Coyote. Suzie must decide if she's brave enough to leave the old strands behind forever.

Due to his dementia, a painter gradually loses the control to keep his biggest secret to himself. Accompanied by his family, he climbs the high staircase to his apartment one last time and with each floor the secret seems to come to light a little more.

Kiosk owner Therese doesn't have a lot of money, but so far it's still been enough for her and her 15-year-old daughter. But then it comes to a head: her landlord and the tax office suddenly demand a sum that Therese cannot afford with the best will in the world. In her distress, she resorts to an illegal trick with a guilty conscience: she places a personal ad under a false name in order to get money from strange men.

Vacation in Berlin. Everyone except ten-year-old Valentina is away. What to do? She wants to make her first movie with a smartphone: A journey to the planet Pax, a planet where everything is good. The shopping cart becomes a spaceship, the bicycle helmet with aluminum foil becomes a spacesuit. During the first take, of all things, Juri, who is new to the neighborhood, gets in her way. As she tries to get rid of him, an angry neighbor shows up who feels disturbed by her noise. Together they flee from his dog. The beginning of a friendship.

Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.

When the village sheriff Frank Koops settles a dispute between the neighbors Ernst and Rudi, he has no idea that this is the prelude to murderous complications that go back far into the past.