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Francesco, a young man from Naples, who prefers to be called Francesca, shares with the Italian girl Giada an apartment in Berlin. Together they dive into the world of prostitution. Through one of his clients, Andreas, Francesco meets Suzanne, a 38 year old woman, and a former political prisoner. Suzanne - searching into her past through a dossier on herself compiled by the Stasi (East Germany Secret Police) - tries to uncover the names of the spies that brought about her arrest. At first she thinks that Andreas might have been the spy but through further search a much dreaded and incredible truth comes to light.

Frankreich um 1820. Den mittellosen Landedelmann Rastignac zieht es zum Studieren nach Paris, wo er in einer armseligen Pension Quartier macht. Dort ist auch Vater Goriot untergekommen, den seine Töchter um alles gebracht haben. Da Rastignac in die besseren Gesellschaftskreise aufsteigen will, macht er sich an Goriots Tochter Delphine heran, die inzwischen mit einem Bankier verheiratet ist. Seine Liebe aber gehört der Wäscherin Yvette. Mit Victorine kommt noch eine weitere Dame ins Spiel, das für Rastignac zunehmend riskanter wird.

Gudrun works in the American wheat country as a hired girl to Mrs. Hawes. Charley Holt, the son of a rich family, takes the Swedish girl to a dance where she is snubbed by his mother and sister. Furious by his elitist relatives, Charley marries Gudrun and gets a menial job as a mill worker. A child is born, but Gudrun's life is unhappy because Charley becomes an alcoholic. After five years of marriage Charley dies in a saloon fight. Gudrun then buys a small farm and works the wheat fields. When tramp Martin O'Neill comes to the farm, Mary feeds him and he works for her. Martin later saves Gudrun and her child from a burning barn but is suspected of starting the fire himself and narrowly escapes a lynching. Finally, it is disclosed that the fire was actually started by Heine, a jealous rival, and Gudrun and Martin are married.