خلاصه داستان : ماتیاس پاسکال، پسر یک خانواده ثروتمند با رومالیندا زیبا ازدواج می کند. اما مادر رومالیندا زندگی را در خانه برای او و همسرش بسیار سخت می کند و...

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.

خلاصه داستان : فیلیپ وینتر، نویسنده اهل آلمان غربی، ضرب‌الاجل ناشر خود برای نوشتن مقاله‌ای درمورد آمریکا را از دست داده. در حین تلاش برای خریدن بلیط هواپیما از نیویورک به آلمان غربی او با زنی آلمانی به نام لیسا و دخترش آشنا می‌شود که آنها هم سعی دارند به خانه برگردند. پس از اینکه لیسا دخترش را...

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.