After turning away from her Turkish family, young Ayla works as a kindergarten teacher and enjoys the liberties of being single. When she meet photographer Ayhan, she ignores all qualms and falls head over heels in love with him. Then Hatice, the mother of one of the kindergarten kids, is desperately seeking Ayla′s help: Hatice is living in fear since she has decided to divorce her husband, thereby enraging her strict Muslim family. Ayla takes her and the kid in, only later realizing that Ayhan is one of Hatice′s brothers.

An unexpected encounter with an unfamiliar woman rouses Marlene, a young single mother, from her unsatisfying routine. Inspired by the provocative verve shown by her new friend, Marlene takes a plunge into the unknown. Is this what a life without children and obligations could look like? But during Marlene’s quest for freedom, piecemeal images from her childhood begin to intrude more and more, reawakening a repressed childhood trauma.

Senta and Thomas are dying to fall in love - just not with one another. Still, when two people - a hopeless romantic and a system analyst - meet, an unexpected amour fou ensues.

The two half-brothers, Hammer and Hart, return to their hometown of Cologne to claim the inheritance left by their late mother, Roswitha. The two couldn’t be more different: Hammer is from Hamburg, where he runs a boxing club for street kids, while gambler Hart is from Las Vegas. They want to claim their inheritance quickly and head back home even faster. But to their surprise, there’s no money—just “Roswitha’s Car Paradise,” a car repair shop that’s clearly seen better days.