Hyper-fertile Paula meets her soul mate, Paul, who coincidentally lives across the street from her. Paul is docile, vulnerable, and yearns to nest with another desperate soul. Seems like the perfect match. If you’re an avid enthusiast of love stories gone wrong, this tragicomedy will surely get you off. Heiner Carow (Coming Out, Until Death Do Us Part ) forces the viewer to look at dating in a whole new pathetic light.
We are introduced to Paul (Winfried Glatzeder), who’s unhappily married to his unfaithful wife and residing in East Berlin. He has a white collar job and appears somewhat satisfied, but behind the walls of an abandoned shitter, things are different. Then there’s Paula (Angelica Domröse), who lives across the street from Paul in a rundown building. She leads a gruesome career as a grocery store cashier, is reluctantly dating a middle-aged salesman, all the while caring for two children (left behind by her unfaithful lover).
When Paul and Paula meet by chance at a boisterous watering hole, their lives are forever disrupted by the obsession which the two cannot resist -one another. Prepare yourself for a hilarious, and at times psychedelic, love story that is as disappointing as it is satisfying. Music by Peter Gotthardt, with songs by the legendary Deutsche band Puhdys.