Ganz Deutschland befindet sich im Kochwahn, ein teurer Herd hat mittlerweile mehr Prestige als ein neues Auto. Ganz Deutschland? Nicht ganz! Denn mitten im Rheinland, im kleinen Ort Rommerskirchen, sitzt ein Mann und sagt: „NEIN!“. Kochen soll nicht „in“ sein, sondern lecker! Horst Lichter nimmt in seiner liebenswert charmanten Art kein Blatt vor den Mund und sagt es, wie es ist: Früher passten alle gängigen Gewürze in eine Gewürztrommel, heute sind die Gewürzregale im Supermarkt so groß, dass man die Erdkrümmung sieht. Heute kochst du mit Sachen, die früher in den Schweineeimer kamen - und dann auch noch Sushi … Für einen Mann, für den alles Fleisch unter 400 Gramm Carpaccio ist, ist Sushi die ultimative Beleidigung - und vor allem: Wofür braucht eine Sushibar einen Herd?

Emma returns home to Cornwall to her father, Ben Litton, a successful albeit rather self-centered painter. Emma is reluctant to be welcomed by her father and will leave her there for a week after her arrival. So Emma remains lonely again until Robert, the gallery owner, wins her heart.

Berlin, the German capital again, a few years after the fall of the Wall. The city in upheaval is also changing the lives of its inhabitants. A young photographer experiences these changes as a rupture, he looks into an unclear, unsettling future and increasingly feels like a stranger in his old city. He and his friends from the generation of the children of the Wall try to find a new identity without losing the old one. Young artists who fail the profitability test of the market economy. In his search, Robert Paris ends up far away, in India. Back in Berlin, he started developing photos again - the first in years...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and forced to work in cabarets, where his father, his fiancée and the Baroness, not to mention the Curé, come looking for him. All ends well.