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Matthias is the younger of the two Landberg brothers. While his brother David has followed in their father's footsteps on the path to success, Matthias lives his life far away from ambitions and career options. He shares his family's holiday home at the French Atlantic coast with his girlfriend Camille and her 6-year-old son Etienne from a previous relationship. Together they idle about day after day. The story begins when David and his wife Lena arrive with the intention of spending their holiday in the family home. Matthias' carefree days are over in a beat, David's presence changes everything. Within ten minutes after his arrival, David insists on sleeping in the room Matthias and Camille have made their own and demands that Etienne is brought to his father, as he wants peace and quiet. Matthias quietly complies because "what David wants, David gets" has been a rule for him from early age on. Camille, however, disgusted by David's bossy behavior, and unwilling to accept his air of entitlement and superiority, secretly concocts a plan to rearrange the pecking order between the two brothers. Her cunning maneuvers make for many surprises!

Franz and Lilly should always take over the cattle breeding of their father. Franz can not imagine anything else for himself. For him, a true dream comes true. But with Lilly, it looks very different.

Five vignettes on the theme of European identity.

The charismatic Paris crook Le Normand, as he is called respectfully by his followers, is somewhere between a murder and a poet, between a gangster and a philosopher. Thirty years ago, this Nietzschean figure moved from the industrial port of Le Havre, but has never really left the town behind him. He is an expert at psychological manipulation, but knows that in the end he will be the victim of his own misbehaviour. To fight a war against rival gangs, he hires a man, Nico, who is however soon forced by one of the gangs to betray his boss. Le Normand takes his revenge by killing Sergio, a friend of Nico, and also brutally murdering his brother. Nico in turn wants revenge. He reports bravely to the headquarters of the philosopher-murderer in Le Havre for a duel. But then events take an unexpected turn

The film is a drama about a young woman who has to grapple with the painful consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. It not only reveals loss and loneliness, it is also a story of the search for a meaning to life by 20- to 30-year-olds.