Die Ähnlichen

In the beginning, three women are standing in a hotel room, having a rapid exchange of words all about old love, hate and weariness. In the following scenes which are loosely connected they keep reappearing: as wives seconding in the conflict between two very different brothers, one who had moved to West Germany very early on, and the other suddenly becoming rich in the East. Then as a young prostitute, for whom both brothers have fallen. And as the wife of a terminally ill director, who makes him think that the prostitute is an actress, to give him one final pleasure. As the mother of a computer geek son who falls in love with a preacher. As a divorcee, who refuses to let her ex-husband go on a trip with their child. Ever new pairings are formed and dissolved, and thus draw a darkly satirical picture of contemporary love and life - until by the end only the three women from the opening scene remain, all alone and inexplicably stunned.