A corrupt lawyer hires a killer to murder his client's divorced ex-wife. The start of a true love story.

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.

Fashion model Sylvie falls asleep drunk in the cab of Munich taxi driver Paul, and an impossible love affair beckons.

A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife.

Angela, a seventeen-year-old girl who is only known by the nickname “Bibo”, faces the world, especially the world of men, with a defiantly self-confident demeanor that doesn't accept defeat. Until she meets the young musician Mischi, one of those “Gelackten aus der Stadt”...