A young couple in Berlin’s Mitte district. She is full of energy and joie de vivre, she wants to have fun and be happy. He, the father of their baby boy, is a writer whose life has reached a standstill. No one wants to print what he writes. He sits on the sofa all day and reads. The young woman does not give up, however; she wants more out of life. In the afternoon his parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits desperately. She comes back, but not alone.