Wanting to start a new life, 40-year-old Heli has found an institution in which she can put her younger, mentally disabled sister. Her three egocentric brothers have agreed to the plan and come to share their sister's final weekend at the house where they all grew up on the outskirts of Berlin. They find that the "baby of the litter" has turned into an unpredictable "monster". The fallout brings them closer together than they'd expected.

anthology film

A feature-length film composed entirely of security camera footage.

Berlin 1989. Die 15-jährige Elfie (Laura Tonke) und ihre Mutter kommen nach der Flucht über Ungarn in ein Containerlager im Westteil der Stadt. Während sich ihre Mutter mit der Lage abfindet, setzt Elfie alles daran aus der kalten Randstadtwelt auszubrechen. Bei ihren Versuchen Geld aufzutreiben, lernt sie den jungen Polen Darius kennen und wird in seine Schwarzmarktgeschäfte verstrickt. Auf ihren Streifzügen trifft Elfie auf den gleichaltrigen Edmund, der von seinen Eltern bei ihrer Flucht in Ostberlin zurückgelassen wurde. Zögernd nähern sich die beiden an.

Jerzy (Miroslav Baka) is a resident of Warsaw who has decided to try and make his way out to the West. He hopes to wind up in the U.S. Instead, he finds himself in Berlin doing low-skill, under-the-counter work, earning his living by hustling jobs and changing hard currency (more or less Director Klier’s own fate). There, he runs into a woman he's met before, who is attempting the same transition - only her low-skill work is prostitution. The two live marginally, keeping fragmented, disjointed contact with each other.

Axel (Richy Müller) and Karla (Laura Tonke) are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son's bedside and Karla is waiting for some sign of life from her sister. None of the doctors can tell them whether the young couple will come out of their comas after their serious accident. As the weeks of uncertainty, fear and tedium pass by; a peculiar relationship develops between Axel and Karla, sustaining both of them. The questions they put to their unknown counterpart increasingly become the questions they are asking themselves...