خلاصه داستان : مایکل هارتونگ، صاحب یک فروشگاه ویدئویی به‌شدت بدهکار، تمام عمرش در قمارها و انتخاب‌های اشتباه شکست خورده است. اما وقتی یک روزنامه‌نگار جاه‌طلب با نتایج تحقیقاتش به سراغ او می‌آید، زندگی «میشای» خوش‌قلب و غمگین دگرگون می‌شود و ...

All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.

خلاصه داستان : داستان این فیلم درباره‌ی زن میانسالی به نام لارا است که در اولین روز تولد 60 سالگی او پسرش قرار است اولین کنسرت پیانوی خود را برگذار کند اما زمانی قضیه از کنترل خارج می شود که لارا متوجه می شود به این کنسرت دعوت نشده است و ....

It's Lara's 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate: this evening, her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who'd mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys up all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.