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On a winter day in 1961, 31-year-old Anna Eichmayr crosses the Grosshesseloher bridge in Munich, she suddenly stops in the middle of the bridge, opens a manhole and plunges into the depths. The film traces the young woman's life in flashbacks. It goes back to 1945. A refugee train rolls westward from the German eastern territories. Anna is sitting in one of the cattle waggons with her mother and her young brother. She is unable to help another boy who tries to move to another place while the train is moving and holds onto her rucksack in the process. He slips and falls between the rails. It is an experience that she will never forget...

A young apprentice, Werner Wild, arrives in a small village in Bavaria to work in the bakery of Georg Baum.

Pete is a musician, his wife Lena has a gallery in Schwabing. They have a son, Benni. Pete gets into a creative crisis: He separates from his rock group and tries to be a solo artist, but can't find a producer.

The painter Edgar flees from Wittenberg to East Berlin. The rebel finds a shelter in a gazebo. On the loo, Edgar discovers a strange reading: "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe.

Fashion model Sylvie falls asleep drunk in the cab of Munich taxi driver Paul, and an impossible love affair beckons.

In 1952, a will was read on the Mollwitz estate in the Lüneburg district, as Countess Henriette Else Amalie von Mollwitz had died. In her will, she had stipulated that she should be buried next to her husband, who was buried in her homeland, which is now in the territory of the GDR and which she had left in 1945 because of the invasion of the Red Army.

An advertising expert and writer is pushed by his publisher to deliver a script for a new book. This one is supposed to be on the topic sexuality.

While his company is facing drastic financial problems, a former drinker suffers a relapse.