Claudia Rieschel

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?

When their mother suddenly starts planning her engagement to a woman, Anne and Erik Merz find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of cheese buffets, chocolate fountains, and old feelings.

A young woman is employed as a waitress at the party of an important architect. There she meets his motherless children. When his father realizes the good relationship established within the children and her, he offers her to work as nanny for the holidays. Although their relationship is very tight at first, soon they find an irreplaceable emotional bond.

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has grown between her and her family.