Leonhard - a young judge - loved Marlene. Marlene, young doctress, fell in love with his best friend, Paul - another doctor. Marriage. They stay friends - Marlene, Leonhard, Paul. Nobody feels very well with this arrangement, but they struggle to ignore every feeling of imbalance or frustration to keep a calm and superficial forthbeing of their relationship. From a perspective years later on the four figures tell about their memories, about what happened, when Anja arrived.
Anja, a young and very attractive student is hired by Marlene and Paul to sit their house while they are on a journey to East India. All three of them live a wealthy life, have done and still do their best for their careers. Anja has nothing to do with that. She is studying literature over time, with no perspectives and struggels to write her Magisterarbeit. It happens that Leonhard surprisingly marries her. Things do not turn out well. Anja and Leonhard fail to build up a relationship. Leonhard who behaves more like a lecturer than a husband, is completetly helpless in regard to her wants and needs. So Anja starts a sexual relationship with Paul. They are detected by Marlene, who informs Leonhard. Breakup of all relationships. Re-organization. Nothing stays as it was. Anja commits suicide.