An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.

Day and Night

Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. ANFANG 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly.

Coming of Age

The diagnosis is frightening: Konrad becomes infected with dangerous hospital germs during a harmless leg operation. His wife Maja is in a dilemma: the recently graduated molecular biologist has just started her first job - in the clinic that treated Konrad. The work goes well, and together with her team the ambitious researcher makes an important discovery. Clinic director Professor Adler is very pleased with her. But he would prefer to sweep her husband's case under the carpet, especially since an independent hygiene report shows no shortcomings in his hospital. Meanwhile, Konrad's condition deteriorates dramatically. He has to give up his job as a gardener, withdraws more and more and indulges in dark thoughts. Maja tries to find out on her own how Konrad could have become infected with the multi-resistant germs in the clinic. In doing so, she comes across frightening deficiencies in patient care.