Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...

When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

From the translucent golden eggs of the Tibetan bearded vulture to those of the British guillemot with their Jackson Pollock-like splashes, German ornithologist Max Schönwetter (1874-1961) collected them all. He devoted his life to oology, the study of birds’ eggs. But while Schönwetter created order in his world of eggs, chaos broke out in the world around him on the eve of the Second World War.

O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times

"Captain" Werner Träsch is quite astonished: the fresh wind of social change is also blowing among the tradition-conscious Berlin garbage workers. His boss, Dorn, has got it into his head that women should finally be employed as refuse collectors.

Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - (K)eine saubere Sache

A sunny summer morning, actually everything looks the same as always. Linda is sitting at the breakfast table with her children. However, something has changed for months: Fritz, the father of the family, is sleeping in the mobile home in the garden. Linda hopes that everything will find its way again, but for her husband the signs are pointing to separation. Linda's pain turns to anger when she finds out that Fritz already has a new partner - and even the children know about it. It is clear to the three of them: Mama needs a "new one" too. With a fake account on the dating portal, Paula, Tim and Thorben start looking for candidates. However, the unsuspecting Linda has neither the nerve nor the need to be matched. It's already going better on its own than she actually wants. Even her best friend Carmen is astonished when Linda tells her about a spontaneous one-night stand and waking up in a shared flat. Thrown off track and a bit off track, Linda is now going her own way. Although she still misses her tidy life, Linda is finding more and more determination to shape her involuntary new beginning herself.