This documentary profiles four members of parliament: mining foreman Adolf Kriesche, farmer Susanne Häber, arc welder Andreas Uhlig, and former East Berlin mayor Herbert Fechner.
In spring 1964, the body of Christa Gellert is dragged out of the Elbe River. City councilor Stegmeier and his colleague Anna Sell claim that the young woman was with them on a business trip when she drowned picking pussywillows.
Eckehard Mucks takes his fiancée Inge out in a paddleboat, but then decides he would rather ride the motorboat tied up at the dock.
Codeword: Prelude. Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba’s revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot.
The leader of a women's brigade hands out theater tickets for employees and their families. One woman steals a modern suitcoat for her boyfriend because he only owns a leather jacket from the West. Mishaps on their way to Berlin's Volksbühne Theater cause her to tell him the truth.