Der Lack ist ab

"Why are you in such a bad mood?" In a banal everyday moment in the bathroom, a downward spiral of bad mood unfolds between Tom and Hanna. Both blame the other for being in a bad mood. They talk past each other until they have almost forgotten why they were arguing in the first place, and Tom finally comes clean...

"Since I turned 40, I'm invisible to men." Hanna's friend Ute (Veronica Ferres) feels invisible at age 43. Men simply don't notice her anymore! The disappearance curse? Tom also overlooks Ute when he comes in and explains to the ladies in a typical Tom manner that self-confidence comes naturally. Oh, really? And how about online dating?

"In the past, we would have done something 'different' now..." Tom and Hanna are sitting on the couch, both immersed in their smartphones. Tom suddenly asks why they hardly have sex anymore. Both become aware that they are almost like best friends and decide to better integrate such beautiful moments into their lives. Using their calendar. Nothing is more unerotic than that...

"You're afraid of the gender quota." Hanna applied for a job and would earn more money than Tom for the first time. Tom doesn't like this idea at all and feels threatened in his role as an alpha male. For him, women still belong by the children's side. This argument drives Hanna crazy - in public...

"Dad has dementia!" Hanna's mother Maria (Gitta Schweighöfer) is convinced that her husband Helmut (Reiner Schöne) is about to develop dementia. Tom and Hanna try to find out whether Helmut is really showing first signs and learn that Hanna's parents want to sell the family home. This hits Hanna especially hard. She sees her childhood memories in threatened...

"Why did you order a taxi now?" Tom and Hanna want to go to the theater. Today of all days, Hanna can't find anything to wear. Tom is already ready in his suit and is getting increasingly nervous. A long-planned evening together with their friends Jutta (Christiane Paul) and Andreas (Johann von Bülow) turns out to be an ordeal...

"It got me." Jörg (Torben Liebrecht), a good friend of Tom's, wants to say goodbye. Forever. And he wants to screw a promise out of Tom and Hanna, because he doesn't have much longer to live. Jörg actually loves life and confronts both Tom and Hanna with the fact that life just doesn't last forever...

"You can stay as long as you want." Hanna's friend Kiki (Marie Zielcke) was thrown out by her husband. Tom doesn't want her to stay indefinitely. And for good reason, because Kiki immediately makes herself very comfortable. Tom and Hanna notice that Kiki's negative thoughts rub off on them and decide to get rid of her immediately...

"Who needs a high school leaver's diploma anyway?" Leon wants to tell his parents on a walk that he is going to drop out of school because he thinks that high school graduation is overrated. At this very moment, the family discovers every man's dream car in a used car park and Leon's moment of truth turns out to be much more difficult than he thought...

Tom and Hanna want to avoid fights at all costs and promise each other a fantastic Christmas. But Emmi is already thwarting their plans. Tom's parents aren't particularly cooperative either, because their ideas of a perfect party could not be more different...