The film follows a group of friends and their highs and lows in pursuit of romantic redemption. It takes place over three years and is divided into eight parties : New Year's Eve, one housewarming, Midsummer, a wedding, a surprise party, a name of celebration, anniversary and birthday parties. The friends are all late thirties or early forties. They fought all with their own idea of ​​what the perfect love really is, and must re-evaluate their perception in the course of history.

Jesper must attend a motivational course to keep his welfare benefits. On the course, coach Schmidtmann tries to help the participants move forward in life. He does this using his own theory: the tomato principle. But Schmidtmann crosses the participants' boundaries in a crude and intimidating way.