Livia S. Reinhard

Vitus beş yaşında mükemmel piyano çalan ve ansiklopedi okumaya bayılan süper zeki bir çocuktur. Anne babası Vitus'ün piyanist olmasını isterler ama küçük dahi, eski bir marangoz olan büyükbabasının atölyesinde oynamayı tercih eder. Büyükbabasının dostluğu ile huzur bulan Vitus, tavsiyeleri ile kendi hayatında farklı bir yol çizmesi gerektiğini anlar. Bir gün geçirdiği bir kaza sonucunda beyni hasar görür. Artık eskisi kadar zeki olmayan Vitus için hayatını farklı bir şekilde yönlendirme zamanı gelmiştir.

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North German lowlands with the dance combo "Tiffanys". In this bizarre universe of Korn, Klaus & Klaus and Koteletts, bandleader Gurki teaches him how to deliver cheerful, upbeat music. To escape the vicious circle of shooting festivals and village weddings, Heinz wants to start a solo career and become a hit producer...

Sebastian is struggling with the problem of still not having a girlfriend at the age of 21. He seeks advice from his grandfather and a therapist, but neither really helps him.

Fifteen-year-old Matteo is attractive, albeit somewhat effeminate. The whole world is against him. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe. The pressure increases as his awkward attempts to win his father’s respect fail. One night two men carry him off: his parents send him to a remote alp, where he is forced to spend the summer working hard on a family farm. When Matteo arrives on the alp, a surprise awaits him.

A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.