Baldur, ein junger, aalglatter Unternehmer aus Deutschland, hat sich darauf spezialisiert, Autoren ihre Ideen und Stoffe zu stehlen. Während einer Geschäftsreise in die USA verliebt er sich in eine junge Frau. Wegen ihr vernachlässigt Baldur seinen zwielichtigen Beruf und verliert schließlich auch die Kontrolle über sein Leben - mit fatalen Folgen. Baldur stielt Schriftstellern ihre Ideen und verkauft diese. Eines Tages führt ihn sein zwielichtiger Job nach Hawaiian Gardens, eine Trabantenstadt im Großraum Los Angeles. Dort trifft er den 70-jährigen Shulzov, der bereits den Kultroman "Dog$hit" geschrieben hat. Shulzov soll Baldurs nächstes Opfer werden. Doch die junge Rosa zieht den Copyright-Piraten alsbald in ihren Bann. Dabei ahnt Baldur nicht, dass die Begegnung sein Leben für immer verändern wird.

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

The story of a strange man who owns a self-storage facility and lives in a reality of his own until reality comes crashing down.

A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.

A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian, whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.

In Wittelbacherpalais, Munich's prison and Gestapo center, middle-aged Else Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti-Nazi material. She serves as a clerk in the Gestapo office. On Thursday, 18 February 1943, two youths arrive at the prison, arrested for carrying anti-Reich pamphlets and suspected of dropping leaflets from the university tower and painting anti-Hitler signs along Ludwigstraße: Sophie, 21, and her brother Hans, 24 and back from the Russian front. Sophie is housed with Else, and for five days, as Sophie is interrogated and charges brought, the women form a bond based on simple interactions: poetry, tea, shared clothing, courage, love of freedom, and a promise Else gives Sophie.

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.