故事发生在一间位于德国的女子学院中，伯恩博格（莉莉·帕尔默 Lilli Palmer 饰）是在那里执教的女教师，她的温柔和善良令她深受学校里女生们的喜爱。伯恩博格有一个习惯，那就是在女孩子们睡觉之前，给她们每人一个晚安吻，这个单纯的吻，对于其中一个名叫玛努薇拉（罗密·施奈德 Romy Schneider 饰）的女孩来说有着别样的意义。
在冥冥之中，伯恩博格和玛努薇拉相互吸引着，在戏剧节的庆祝会上，玛努薇拉终于无法掩饰自己对老师的爱情，向伯恩博格表白了。校长（特蕾泽·吉泽 Therese Giehse 饰）将玛努薇拉的这些举动看做是一种疾病，将后者关在了医务室里。

A man returns every year to visit his estranged family and friends in this drama dripping with biting social commentary. His 40-year-old buddies are part of the nouveau riche who consider themselves elite and are content to sandbag it at work. Teutonic sentimentality is lampooned, and the narrow minded are held up to ridicule. Some fine performances outweigh the passages of unintentional humor in this second film from director Ulrich Schamoni.

一位年迈的黑帮成员费尔南·诺丁希望能够安静地退休，但突然间从一位老朋友——前黑帮头目墨西哥人那里继承了一大笔财富。费尔南对这笔新财富感到矛盾，但更加惊讶的是，他还继承了他的恩人墨西哥人的女儿帕特丽夏。不幸的是，费尔南不仅要忍受现代化的帕特丽夏和她令人作呕的男朋友，还必须对付墨西哥人那些爱开枪的前员工，他们决心要求继承。

Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out about her pregnancy she estranges from her partner. Trying to keep her former life as it was, she desperately looks all over the city to get an abortion.