How It Ends

On her 45th birthday, housewife Theresa Jessen is transferred once again to a business appointment by her husband Richard, a busy building contractor. The two adult children Tobias and Nina gladly use their mother's services, but they don't even have time to accompany them to the dentist on this day, which Theresa is quite nervous about. So Theresa spontaneously decides something crazy: To leave the gray everyday life behind, she gets on the next bus to Usedom and rents a room at the "Möwe" guesthouse. What was planned as a day trip turns into an indefinite holiday in the enchanting, slightly dilapidated hotel with a view of the lake. Theresa gives the fun-loving pension landlady Elisabeth Rosenbauer a hand and enjoys the unexpected attention and recognition of the illustrious pensioners. Above all, the amiable advances of the divorced boat builder Sebastian Schneider are balm for the soul of the neglected wife and mother. In the relaxed atmosphere, Theresa also passes the driver's license test and strengthens her scratched self-confidence. Richard finally notices that something has probably gone wrong and makes his way to Usedom. When on arrival he witnesses, unnoticed, how Sebastian makes a fiery declaration of love for his wife, he takes up the fight: Richard hires himself in as "Mr. Neumann" and does everything in his power to win his wife's heart again. It's not that easy, because Theresa has changed in the meantime. And she clearly enjoys the fact that two admirers are vying for her.

Santa Claus assumes the guise of a worker, a maid, a clerk and a bartender to solve the problems of different people.

Two innocent friends go to the city and get a job. One of them is misused by his boss who gets him trapped in a robbery.

Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the Jewish cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal immigrant.

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.

Marketing executive Candy Boudreaux tackles her biggest campaign when she decides to pursue star football player Eric Whitaker for her own personal satisfaction. She quickly becomes sidelined when she becomes intertwined into the unknown sports world of parties, blackmail and sexual games, all just be be with Eric. Eric, very egotistical and arrogant has no plans of settling down with just one woman, but Candy has a different game plan. Taking the attitude of 'whatever it takes' to make him hers, she soon learns local in-house 'groupies' will not make her task easy. Candy operates as smoothly as she can without becoming a victim of the 'groupie status' by consulting with family, friends and associates, all of which are involved with Eric in some situation or another on how she can make him fall in love with her.