Nahuel Häfliger

Against the backdrop of New York's dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to live with her husband's ex-wife when he disappears without a trace.

Having been brought up by a variety of different mothers, the young foreign language correspondent Lisa Hellmann now longs for a sense of family security in her adopted home of Barcelona. She may have found this with Emilio de Alvarado's family. The (strictly Catholic) wedding is already planned and the obligatory christening is on the agenda. But then Lisa's old-68 grandmother Ingeborg bursts into the ceremony and not only causes displeasure with her views, but also shakes Lisa's faith in the rightness of her actions.

In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.