Episodenfilm, der in einem Zeitraum von 24 Stunden am Berliner Alexanderplatz des Jahres 2000 spielt. Hier, zwischen Fernsehturm und U-Bahnhof, treffen unterschiedliche Charaktere und Schicksale aufeinander, kreuzen sich Geschichten um Liebe und Tod, um Drogen, Wahnsinn, Humor und Musik.

Wagner is a cop, a man who doesn't talk much, unlike Zippolt, the guy he has to sit in the car with. Both men are ordered to give close protection to Siegfried, a suspected murderer. Wagner lives in an old fashioned apartment, he counts bird, listens to Richard Wagner's operas, sees a lot, does little, meets a woman, gets entangled - and in the end he loses his countenance. A story about good-wanting and wrong-doing, about relationships and people in contemporary Berlin.