看似是个完美的家庭，不需要工作的妻子有一个努力工作、风趣热情又顾家的丈夫，而丈夫的真正职业——贩毒却让她很不安。丈夫答应妻子不要把工作带到家庭里来，而情况却变得越来越糟，孩子们开始知道父亲真正的工作。妻子决定带着孩子们离开自己的丈夫，而想要离开却没那么容易。她最终开枪打死了丈夫，开始了新的独立自主的生活，用自己的双手去赚干净的钱。

家事律师markus发现假期艳遇的对象lena怀孕，他以为终于能如愿拥有自己的家室。他决定花多点时间来了解lena,毕竟两人相识的时间不长，然而lena的父亲hartmut对女儿的新男友似乎没什么好感。markus来到鲁尔区营地参加hartmut的50岁生日派对.hartmut竟动员营地所有人来整markus,他与未来的岳父即将展开一场爆笑的大战。

A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's The Women. It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men.　　The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work against the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.