Meine alles außer gewöhnliche Familie

Emma knows Max for nearly all her life ... but something misses. Her 'career' as an actress is not worth calling it a career and at her 25th birthday the realizes, that something has to change in her life.

A businessman books a Santa Claus with his wife from the student employment service for his children on Christmas Eve. He appears too late and when he realizes that he should only be the mess clown for the children so that they can go to bed quickly, because business friends are supposed to come to dinner, he calls his colleagues.

A baby is supposed to crown the dreamlike marriage of the divorce attorneys Pia and Uli, but the success of all their efforts – ranging from “sex on a schedule” to artificial insemination – fails to materialize. When Pia learns that Uli has cheated on her during this difficult period, she immediately files for a divorce. But Uli fights stubbornly for the custody of the deep-frozen oocytes which have remained from the artificial insemination.

LKA officer Robert can barely do his job because of his phobia of crime scenes. The shy man's big dream is to retrain as a "profiler", but his superior would have to agree first. Hairdresser Rita dreams of a life as a writer, but no one is interested in her stories. When the two meet, it's love at first sight. And when Rita's daughter becomes involved in a murder case, the timid Robert rises above himself.

"Men cheat on women, it's a law of nature." Sonja has had some bad experiences and now wants to save her sixteen-year-old daughter Nicole from the worst. The shy teenager has just won the heart of classmate Daniel. Nicole's eternally pubescent father Sven is just as embarrassing as her mother. He messes up his ex-wife's man-hating ways with superfluous macho tips.

When her store is to be closed, a sales assistant wants to give "those up there" a real piece of her mind. On the management floor, however, Sara is mistaken for a new colleague who is supposed to get the fashion company back on its feet. She soon realizes that someone is literally cheating on the labels and turning the cheapest thread into supposedly high-end goods. Together with a dapper colleague on the board, she searches for the fraudster, but then she herself is exposed.

Franka Eyckner is in Malta on business. As the controller of a language school, she wants to get the principal on track. But the man is a real challenge. John sincerely vows to do better, but there's no sign of real change! It's a good thing there's also Till. The smart craftsman sees into Franka's soul and responds to her sensitively. Unfortunately, Franka is not the only woman who understands Till so well. Franka comes to Valletta to train John, the new head of the language school there. He is to use the sophisticated learning system that is the basis for the success of "Talk to Me", a global language school for which Franka works. But John, a bon vivant, humorously lets Franka down.

After her husband’s fatal accident, Marie is forced to leave her cozy home with her three children, move to a high-crime neighborhood, and, to make matters worse, work as a prostitute—because that seems to be her only way to make any money at all. In the end, her son’s single—and outrageously handsome—teacher becomes her savior in her time of need.

This unusual rainbow family chronicle was filmed over a period of 12 years. In 2009, the documentary journey begins with two mothers and their three sons and a man. From diapers to soccer, babies mature into teenagers with their own opinions. Old family secrets are revealed, love comes and goes. An unexpected letter arrives from a girl to her half-brothers. Surprisingly, this constellation develops into a family universe by 2021.

Martin wants to catch up on his exams. In order to be admitted as a hardship case, he "borrows" his neighbor's child. His buddy Lars, a successful lawyer, wistfully remembers his old student days and wants to let it rip again before he gets married.