A French sailor, returning to Hamburg where he had been imprisoned during WWII, looks for a German woman he had loved in those days, and finds her in a night club.
Hans Fallanda'nın Otto and Elise Hampel romanından uyarlanan film; Nazi yönetimi altında ki Berlin günlerinde insanca yaşamanın cesaret ve onurunu etkileyici biçimde anlatıyor.
Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small seaside resort in Western France. He is a famous actor, about to turn fifty. She is a piano teacher in her forties. They were in love fifteen years ago, then separated. Time has passed. They each went their ways and slowly healed. When Mathieu goes try to overcome his melancholia in a thermal spa, he stumbles upon Alice.
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
94 yaşındaki Eleanor Morgenstein, en yakın arkadaşının ölümünün ardından hayatını yeniden kurmaya çalışır. Bunun sonucunda, onlarca yıl Florida'da yaşadıktan sonra New York'a geri döner.
Sosyal adaletsizlik ve iş güvencesi üzerine bir kitap yazmayı planlayan gazeteci Marianne Winckler, araştırma yapmak için temizlik işçisi olarak çalışmaya başlar. Bir yandan maddi güvencesizliği ve toplumsal dışlanmayı deneyimlerken, bir yandan da kadın meslektaşlarıyla dayanışmanın gücünü keşfeder.