The completely unsuspecting Ellen finds out that her husband is cheating on her with the neighbor. She immediately decides to move out with her daughter Nina and take her entire household with her. Mother and daughter are equally overwhelmed by the new situation. They live chaotically amidst moving boxes, subsist on ready-made pizza and Nina increasingly becomes an outsider at her new school. She has long since lost faith in her mother.
Erika, Dorle and Ilse, three friends between 60 and 70, have always stuck together and always manage to take life on the bright side. Erika's big dream is to have an expensive breast reconstruction. But she doesn't have the money. In order to fulfill her friend's heart's desire, Dorle and Ilse take on temporary jobs and eventually even develop an unexpected criminal energy. However, problems are not long in coming.
