Young artist Kurt Barnert has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student Ellie, he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.
On a rainy day, Nora and Aron meet in the subway and immediately fall in love with each other. Differently view, the two are only about what brought them together: for Nora it was coincidence, for Aron fate. As the newly in love couple gets into a bank robbery in which Aron is shot and still dies in Nora's arms. Nora is understandably devastated and trying to numb her feelings. Eventually, she lands in the arms of Natan, with whom she spends the night. The strange thing is that although he is a complete stranger, Nora still has the strange feeling of knowing him. In addition, he runs her from now on more often on the way. She does not yet suspect that she really connects something.
Four old friends from the university times travel from Barcelona to Berlin to meet Álex Comas, the other friend of the bunch who moved Germany years ago. They are Olivia, a woman pregnant of seven months of her first baby; Guille and Anna, a longtime couple with problems after she was fired and doesn't find a new job; and the naive Eloi, who despite to have work moved to his parents' house after to lose his own by the debts. Arriving the Friday to spend three days remembering old times in order to celebrate with Comas during a full weekend his 35th birthday that it will be the Sunday, the own Comas is surprised by the unexpected visit of the group, but soon the things complicate between them: in their first talks emerge contradictions and conflicts by their different lives and personal situations, and at the end of the night a taciturn and depressive Comas, taking advantage a boys date to drink in a night pub with Guille and Eloi, leaves the pub and misses in the city unable to stay.