Unschuld (2008)

Alexander is a member of the Bundestag and has to face the fact that his life has become empty and aimless. He knows he has to change something—he just doesn’t know what. On his search, he meets the beautiful Kim, who has very different hopes from his own. The young police officer Simone has reached a dead end in her marriage to Peter, a manic photographer, when a teenager tries almost insistently to get close to her. This boy seems to know exactly what he wants. Unlike Julia, who is tormented by her unfulfillable longing for a child of her own. In the days of divided Berlin, she was a rebellious child of privilege, moving back and forth between her bourgeois world and the wild scene, between alcohol, art, and love. She meets the young music star and producer Chris and, for the first time in a long while, feels respected. But Chris succumbs to the unbearable pressure from Derya, an underage Turkish groupie who pursues him constantly. Even when Julia runs into her longtime friend Alexander again, he cannot help her. But in that moment, he understands what he has to do. And then there is Raimo, the unfailingly cheerful bus driver, who saves Laura and falls in love with an angel. They are all connected by the thread of fate. They are all seeking an answer to the question: “How should we live, and how can we be happy?”