A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's "The Women". It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men.
　　The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work "against" the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.

　　名不见经传的钢琴家安迪（马提亚斯·施维赫夫 Matthias Schweighöfer 饰）和从未干过什么正经事整天游手好闲的本诺（弗洛里安·大卫·菲茨 Florian David Fitz 饰），这两个个性迥异似乎永远都不会有交集的人，相识于病房之中，两人都患上了无法治愈的绝症，时日无多。
　　在本诺的怂恿之下，安迪决定和他一起逃出病房，来一趟充满了阳光和激情的非洲之旅，他们要尽情享受轰轰烈烈毫无顾忌的人生，才能甘心接收死亡的终结。就这样，两个“亡命之徒”踏上了他们的旅途，一路上，疯狂的两人制造了数不清的麻烦和笑料，而他们糟糕的健康状况，亦令两人屡屡同死神擦肩而过。最终，当他们抵达了目的地时，又会有怎样的一番景象在等待着两人呢？

　　Communist East Berlin, early 1980s: LUDGER is hired by the Stasi to infiltrate a subversive countercultural movement in the district of Prenzlauer Berg. After falling in love with the mysterious NATHALIE and sleeping with his first target, CORINNA, Ludger ends up living two lives – one as an underground poet and one as a Stasi agent – both of which eventually come back to haunt him 30 years later.

　　Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the role of women in society in his carnival club. When he meets psychologist Margarete Tietze, "Pussi" finally begins to rebel against his dominant mother.