Towing contractor Drechsler doesn't like himself or anyone else. Together with the corrupt policeman Budde, he does crooked business. But when the Danish woman Iben desperately asks him for help, the sourpuss thaws...
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
While the unemployed actor Dieter "Did" Stricker keeps his head above water as a barker, his old acquaintance Rainer turns up, who now works as a PR strategist for the radical right-wing NSDU party. Did's rhetorical talent and his great poses would suit the faceless party well. With a few tricks, Rainer persuades his former colleague to run for office. With success: the popularity of the party increases, as do Stricker's fees. But suddenly his conscience speaks out.
After more than thirty years of marriage, Martha Rimböck takes stock. She reckons up what her husband has done wrong during this time. Using an ingenious points system, she has noted every one of his transgressions in their life together, but has not left herself out either. Now she sees the time has come to settle their unequal accounts: she poisons him.
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