The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the ‘big’ crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.

Hans Engler is a reserved man from Hamburg with no family or partner. When his acquaintance Agnes asks him to assume paternity for her daughter Martina, he cannot refuse her the favor. When Agnes dies a short time later, Hans Engler is drawn into a violent conflict with Martina's biological father, which quickly becomes life-threatening for him.

At the end of the seventies, 29-year-old Petra Grust starts her job as a biology teacher at the famous Odenwaldschule. But soon Petra is confronted with the disconcerting reality. Teachers and teachers of the two sexes crawl together in the shower, young pupils drink alcohol and smoke, and a colleague even has a relationship with a minor pupil. Then Petra does a really terrible conclusion.