Das fehlende Grau is the associative portrait of a young woman and the men who fall for her. Attracting attention comes naturally to her. Sometimes loud and shrill, other times childish and quiet, she bounces between extremes, shifting from attraction one moment to rejection the next.

While doing the laundry, the young lawyer Jan discovers that the washing machine creates phenomena. The effect can be reproduced and he massively expands his experiments. The machines run 24/7. Is he the only one who knows about it?

After his company went bankrupt, hobby musician Erik toured furniture stores on behalf of a furniture company to advertise their products. A task that would be easy to accomplish if it weren't for the criminal brother who steals some furniture and promptly ends up in jail again. In order to quickly raise the necessary money for the deposit, the half-hearted free-walker Goldi persuades Erik to organize a charity tour for his brother. The “tour to paradise” can begin.

After a car accident, Sebastian contracts an uncanny sleeping sickness. Every day he sleeps a minute longer than the preceding day. Sebastian attempts to find out on his own what sleep is.