Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accident and so the murder remains undiscovered for the time being.
Silvia, a successful architect and single mother of nine-year-old Marc, is about to marry her colleague Rolf. Just now, after years of silence, Marc's father Ricardo, a rich South American entrepreneur's son, shows up.
The tale of Kuno Nieff (Chajim Koeningshofen), who is responsible for making sure each of the animal specimen jars in the Berlin Natural History Museum is properly filled with alcoholic preservative.