East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.
Pitt and Felix, two friends from school, meet again by chance in hospital years later. Both are looking forward to fatherhood. In order to shorten the grueling wait until the baby is born, they exchange lively memories of their school days. Some embarrassments are also brought up.
During a cattle drive, Don McGow leaves the herd in charge of his younger brother and rides off. When the herd is reported stolen he blames himself and goes in search of the thieves.
After the summer holidays, Marion, Conny, Gaby, Jacqueline, and Uschi are on the train to Seeburg, where they attend boarding school. During the trip they meet trumpet-player Jochen and his band.
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free...
A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the scenes the family is in turmoil. The relationship between father and son in particular is extremely tense. Martin Berger is seduced by the attractive...
Pit and Susi - the couple from the "dream car" - struggle with the small and big problems at work and in their relationship. Pit is on the rise: in his mid-20s, he is already on the management floor of a large Munich advertising agency and always on duty. He lives with Susi in a spacious apartment....
Emma Bovary, a dreamy, idealistic woman married to the dull provincial doctor Charles, yearns for the passion and luxury she’s read about in novels. After affairs with Léon and Rodolphe fail to fulfill her fantasies, her compulsive spending leads to crushing debt, and in despair, she decides to...
