The former waiter Ernst Held believes himself to be called higher and seeks self-realization as a poet. When he recites poems to his wife's beautician in an ambiguous situation, his wife puts him out the door. Completely destitute, the thwarted poet must therefore return to the lowlands of life and become the head in the Munich pub "Goldener Löffel".

A policeman suspects that several bizarre deaths in the same family were murders and that the killer is a mysterious woman who just moved to the village.

Married vet Josef not only has a passion for dolphins, but also for other women. When his wife Barbara divorces him, Josef plunges into a life crisis and moves in with his lawyer friend Roman, whose household he thoroughly overhauls with feng shui and esotericism. In the meantime, Andreas, the third member of the family, has a child with Josef's ex-wife Barbara - but is overwhelmed as a father. Josef and Andreas join forces to form a fatherhood community. The owner of the apartment, Roman, is a nuisance and flees to Barbara.

A retail store owner in a mall fights to cope with her family and customers at the same time that she is threatened with the loss of her lease.