The rich butcher and purveyor to the court Wiener has had little joy in life since the death of his wife. His competitors now see their chance and try every trick in the book to get their hands on his successful liver cheese recipe.

If a territorial reform hadn't forced Oberzwickelbach and Unterzwickelbach to have a joint mayor and thus triggered a veritable war between the villages, landlady Anni Schwirbler wouldn't be so annoyed that her customers aren't coming. Her "Zwickel" - as Anni's pub is called - is located right on the border between two village breweries that have been at loggerheads for years.

Chiemgau in the early 1930s. The farmer Andreas Schrothammer has had bad experiences with his second wife and therefore no longer tolerates any women on his farm apart from the hard-of-hearing old maid Barbara.

In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married.

When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps.