The films have been developed as a mixture between a family saga and historic document, including scenic and documentary elements against real, historical backgrounds. The dramatic scenes feature a top-quality cast including Barbara Auer, Axel Prahl, Felix Vörtler, Matthias Brandt, Annett Renneberg, Stefanie Stappenbeck and Florian David Fitz.
Kurt, Lotte, Jakob, Silke and Bernd experience together everyday life in the Berlin just after the Second World War, surrounded by bomb si and blackmarketeers, rival gangs of youths and young love. In 1961, when the stream of refugees to the West increases, they attempt to maintain their friendship - but the aspects of their characters which differentiate them as individuals become increasingly apparent, and the members of the gang lose track of one another. At New Year 1989, when the Berlin Wall has fallen, they suddenly find themselves reunited at a wedding... and the shadows of their past catch up with them.