The story of people who are all around the age of forty - that major turning point in life - but still haven't gotten where they think they ought to be by that age. Three people who are filled with longing. Judith. Ulrike. Jochen. Three people in a big city who all lead double lives, for different reasons, whether voluntarily or not, whether professionally or privately. They are all people who haven't found themselves and who have to keep inventing themselves on their search for meaning and love. Maybe this is a new lifestyle, the face of a new zeitgeist at the beginning of the new millennium.