Three loners from Sitges, Berlin and Amsterdam try to blend together in Brussels, city of unification.

Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.

Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.

A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.

Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."