54-year old Gertrud lives a life of routine and despair, a prisoner in her own apartment. She is looking for great happiness. She is looking for the man of her life in the lonely hearts ads; a man who could rescue her from her extreme loneliness. But her wishes and expectations are often far from reality. There are many lonely hearts in the big city but they are not all looking for true love. Some are merely seeking a nice friendship while others are openly looking for sexual partners. The first phone call is always decisive.

With a gentle touch, the film tells the story of lonely people in the big city. We get glimpses of Gertrud's emotional ups-and-downs, from periods of hope to periods of disappointment, that put her faith in love to the test over and over again. Leaving or Staying is a soliloquy against loneliness and oppressive silence: "to go or to stay…". We embark on a journey through the cosmos of human desire.

Tobias is a nonconformist, absolutely crazy about onions and a sex maniac. He is above all a master in the fine art of surviving as an outsider in the clean and polished conventional city of Munich. Pornotalk is a long-term study, the portrait of a man who loves with every single part of himself and always gets himself entangled in the twists and turns of life. Tobias dreams of being a sultan with many wives around him. But his unbridled lust is mostly subjected to rejection from the women’s world. Tobias’ carousel of life rotates through the songs he writes, his visits to the brothel, and his voluntary stays at the psychiatric clinic. For a living he collects bottles with refundable deposits. Tobias still has a lot to learn. Behind his constant lust, he used to conceal his disappointment that his affections were not reciprocated. He only truly feels himself when sitting in front of his piano composing his no-frills blues songs: "Onions, o yeah / Onions are very wonderful / a nutriment / that directly leads to copulation ".