Out of the blue, actress Anna loses her job at a small municipal theater. Having just been on stage, she now finds herself in the dreariness of the local job center. At the insistence of her theater-enthusiastic caseworker, she takes over the management of an acting course for eight long-term unemployed people who are difficult to place. Despite enormous resistance to the compulsory training program, the frustrated lone fighters increasingly form a close-knit group with whom Anna stages Antigone. Surprisingly, the participants' private dramas become more and more turbulent and Anna also experiences a new beginning that she hadn't expected.

Frida wants a baby. But although she forces her boyfriend to follow a strict fertilization regimen, she’s not getting pregnant. Just when she’s about to resort to artificial means, her boyfriend dumps her. Suddenly, she’s missing the most important pregnancy ingredient – the father. But Frida will stop at nothing to get her baby.

Frank dreams of fame as a successful writer, while his partner Akim dreams of having a child together. Then fate comes to his aid: Frank meets the charismatic Kathrin and makes her the heroine of his new novel.

Lawyer Dimitrios Schulze works in the Jungbusch district of Mannheim and helps anyone who has problems with the police and justice system. He also supports his mother and sister in the grocery store. While district police officer Sultan Cakmak shows unshakable loyalty to law and order, for Schulze, humanity and feeling are in the foreground. For this reason, he tries by all means to protect his clients from the judge Dr. To protect Eszter Petöfi.