For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence.
Munich in the late 1970s. 18-year-old Annemarie Ostermeier, a girl from the low-income area of Giesing, dreams of becoming famous. The aspiring legal assistant wants to escape the narrow-mindedness of the middle class. At a beauty contest in a nightclub, she catches the eye of photographer Claus. After he persuades Annemarie to do a test shoot, he manages to get the pictures published in Playboy. Annemarie becomes a star overnight. Under her stage name Angela Winter, she enjoys the glamour to the fullest. But life without limits quickly shows its dark side: debts and drugs lead Annemarie into the porn business. Her lifelong search for love and recognition almost ends in death.
A satirical journey through 30 years of post-war West German history, from 1957 to 1987, focusing on the divergent paths of two school friends, Ulli and Willi. Ulli immerses himself in the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, while Willi pursues a conventional political career.
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