Katharina Thalbach, Axel Prahl, Katerina Medvedeva, Karoline Eichhorn, Herbert Knaup, Jürgen Holtz, Mathieu Carrière, Victor Choulman, Leon Kessler, Maria Dragus, Dominique Horwitz, Walfriede Schmitt, Heinz Behrens, Fritz Roth, Manfred Breitenstein
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.