Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.

• Ö-Filmproduktion
• RBB
• Katharina Thalbach
• Axel Prahl
• Katerina Medvedeva
• Karoline Eichhorn
• Herbert Knaup
• Jürgen Holtz
• Mathieu Carrière
• Victor Choulman