During a coma, Blank has visions of a desert. When he wakes up from his coma in hospital, he realizes that he has lost his memory. Without knowing who he is, he sets off in search of himself. Ward sister Maria, who has been raising her son Gaspar alone for years without a husband, becomes Blank's involuntary escape helper from the hospital and accomplice in an adventurous search for the seven basic rules of life.

Helen's life is a chain of misfortune: She loses her job, she fails her final exams at university, and then she is dumped by her husband Jan on their wedding day - he moves in with his new girlfriend Jeanette. Her mother Ruth and her friend Olga try to cheer her up - but then Jan has a fatal accident...

Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piece together the clues to find out who murdered her … but to no avail.

A patient dies beneath Dr. Robert Stenzel's hands. His wife, the virologist Simone, realizes too late that the deceased was carrying a contagious virus. Robert has long since been infected too. For Simone, a merciless race against time begins...