S2.E11 ∙ Illusion Confusion

31-year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this; he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself; Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots; Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl; Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty; Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking; Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class, who spend most of their time smooching; and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny. Tristan has just developed a huge crush on Kerstin, but is too shy to do anything about it. As if that weren't enough, his parents, both psychoanalysts, separate, which puts an abrupt end to childhood naivete. Tristan is supposed to move town at the end of the school year. But time is too short to grow grey hair. The friends experience awkwardness at dance school, masturbation, and first fantasies of the opposite sex, amateur school theatre, the first real party with lots of alcohol, strip poker etc. The biggest interest is, of course, to get ahead with the girls, which often ends up in very funny situations. Their mutual enemy is Simone's father, who beats her until Tristan finally works up the courage to stop him. On Tristan's last day, when all his friends come to say goodbye, Kerstin is missing. To his surprise, she is waiting on the swing in front of Tristan's new home. This is the beginning of a long, deep love, which leaves Tristan with the knowledge that he experienced something extraordinary, which most people never will.

At seventeen, everyone talks and thinks about sex. In fact, they are waiting for love - that very first, big and real one. At the age of seventeen they write letters by e-mail declaring their love and suffer because they are mistaken for a virus. They fall in love with the voice of a stranger and take their beloved girls away from their own wedding. It happens that seventeen-year-olds are "really unlucky" and girls don't want to fall in love with them, because they seem uninteresting and "unsexy" to others, and even to themselves. But first love comes to them as unexpectedly and inevitably as it did to their peers many generations ago.

A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.

The path of true love never runs smooth, especially not for teenagers, as Tim discovers.

Helena, a beautiful immigrant actress/model, way too old for modeling and too old for acting without credits finally lands a big job but overseas. Out of desperation and advice of her LA friends she commits a federal fraud to get her traveling documents. To escape jail time she gives out names. In this comedic/dramatic piece as she is still wondering where her career is going she needs to watch over her back wondering if she is going to end up getting whacked by the people she ratted out.