Two friends fall in love with the same girl and end up in a situation that can only make everyone unhappy. In Forget America, it is also reinforced by the setting, a small East German town. Life in Aschleben is difficult enough in itself for David, who would like to be a famous photographer, for Benno, who desperately wants to open an American road cruiser store in his dreary hometown, and for Anna, who dreams of a career as an actress, but it is their feelings for each other that rob them of practically any chance of a little happiness.

When a young man sees a stag's antlers in a living room as he passes by, he mistakes himself for the stag and, in search of its origins, is led by the resident, a passionate hunter, into a rocky landscape at the back of her house, which turns out to be a ghost train where they all live.

Marc Deville is an acclaimed author of erotic literature. In his personal life, however, physical closeness with the opposite sex eludes him. Being a porn addict, his sexuality is narrowly defined by the framed images he can masturbate to. One day he meets Justine, a nurse with a fetish of her own: her love for erotic asphyxiaton has estranged her from her husband Eric, a theatre director...

After a young management consultant involuntarily stumbles over the roots of his identity in Muotathal, he struggles just like a fatefully interwoven "gothic girl" to break out of the narrowness of the valley and make peace with the past.

EWE tells the story of a state, where monitoring and observation is part of everyday life. Every person is watcher as well as beeing watched, victim and offender at the same time... and everyone agrees with this kind of living.