Two Harmonic Lives

The autobiography of Fiona Doyle, an Irish woman who makes a case against her father for incestuous sexual abuse, and with the whole of Ireland behind her, gets a conviction for the rapist 30 years after the crime.

The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won't have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father's catches them. In a café.

The Berlin writer Agnes Berg receives a literary prize for her new novel, in which she writes sensitively about dying. But then the unbelievable happens: Her only daughter Johanna, who has settled in Mallorca, her adopted home with her Spanish husband and two children, is killed in a car accident. Agnes is shaken because the painful argument that had divided mother and daughter for 15 years can no longer be resolved. Agnes travels to Spain with her best friend Katharina, where a frosty reception awaits them. The grandchildren Natascha and Enrico have never seen their German grandmother and are dismissive. The housekeeper Inez, the gardener Pablo and Maria, the Spanish mother of her son-in-law, let Agnes know that she is not welcome. Only Katharina and Richard Gutmann, lawyer and long-time friend of the family, encourage her. Step by step, Agnes wins the trust of the two grandchildren, who soon take their grandmother into their hearts. But suddenly Agnes 'publisher appears with supposedly good news: An American media company wants to market her books and is inviting the German author on a month-long reading tour. Agnes faces a difficult decision.

Kay Gonda--the greatest movie star and celebrity of the 1930s--is accused of murder. On the run from the police, she seeks refuge at the homes of her most passionate fans--six men who have pledged their love to her through their letters. Actually innocent of the crime, she is really on a quest to find one man of integrity among them--one man who will not betray her. Only this can rekindle her hope in mankind and her desire to remain a movie idol.