The friends Moritz and Dirk get accepted at the TU Darmstadt and leave their small home village in Brandenburg to set out for the big town to study business arithmetic (mathematical economics).
Eight friends help each other repeatedly move house. One year of moving, from apartment to apartment, from shared flat to shared flat. These changes of the apartment are also a changes of relations -some break, others grow.
A man name Christian is assigned as an assistant to Benjamine, a disabled man. On his first day he runs into a chello player name Annika, who shortly after finds herself in a love triangle with the two.
In a rehab clinic Romy Schneider gives her last interview to two journalists. Three days, driven by romantic desire, professional ambition and the urge for living.
Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have to come to terms with the boy falling ill with leukemia.