Because of a misunderstanding, Magrit attends a group therapy session. She never thought she'd need it, and yet...
An aspiring young lawyer is about to make her biggest career leap and is to become a partner in a prestigious law firm. She is accused of a serious mistake and dismissed without notice. At first she is devastated, but then she infiltrates the firm's cleaning team and uses her working hours to search for evidence of her innocence. Conventional (TV) comedy with familiar ingredients.
"Anyway: the art, the art" follows renowned director Stan's theatre group, who are putting together a play uncovering the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry. Stan hires a psychotherapist Dr Franz. She is supposed to support Stan's actors and ensure that the production runs smoothly. Stan notices that she gets the team and the actors hooked on the drug Zyprecs in an effort to delude them into painting the pharmaceutical industry in a good light. The actors gradually begin to suffer a nervous breakdown from the side effects of the medication, but the premiere is getting closer and closer. As a medical consultant, Dr Franz intervenes ever more deeply in the production process and artistic work.
Helena, 29, a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter, is a moderately successful actress who earns a living as an escort in the sex industry. Her relationship with her own mother, a singing teacher, is tense, and she’s also increasingly annoyed with her job. Meeting David offers her an opportunity.
Joanna, a committed football coach of a multicultural girls' team, has to find 2000 Euros for the football field. She comes across a foundation that gives money to migrants who convey German culture to other migrants.
Berlin. Greta, 40, architect, mother of a 12-year-old son, recently unemployed. She does everything in her power to keep hanging on in there, torn between the pressure to conform and the spirit of contradiction.
Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.
Neda finds no fulfillment in love, family or work, and so she wanders through Berlin searching.
The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...
While driving on a highway, Lena sees a burning car and hears a scream. Compelled to find out who the deceased woman was, she slowly loses herself in the unravelling mystery. Trapped between an unresolved past and a future that’s not her own, Lena must rediscover who she is before she disappears completely.