Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Pasiturinčio vynuogynų savininko duktė Laura ir samdinių sūnus Pako užaugo viename name. Jaunystėje jie buvo kartu, tačiau Laura jaunuolį paliko ir dabar, po daugelio metų, gyvena su vyru ir vaikais Argentinoje. Pako pasiliko kaimelyje Ispanijoje, gyvena čia su žmona ir dirba vynuogyne, kurį nebrangiai jam kadaise pardavė Laura. Ir štai jie susitinka Lauros sesers Anos vestuvėse. Laura iš Argentinos atsivežusi savo vaikus, tačiau per vestuves kažkas pagrobia miegančią mergaitę ir už ją pareikalauja milžiniškos išpirkos.
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
Bernd, an insurance broker trainee, flees his mundane life in Germany to set a new World record in hang gliding in Bolivia.
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.
Annie is a cashier in a Munich Cinema Center. Her everyday life is the complete opposite of the exciting screen adventures she sells at the box office, so she fantasizes about the movies during the day. At night, she also begins to stage her own adventure in real life.