خلاصه داستان : پس از مرگ پدر بدرفتارش، مارتا کتابدار تنها با تاجری به همان اندازه شرور - هلموت ازدواج می کند. ماهیت بی رحمانه و عذاب آور رابطه آنها مارتا را به این باور می رساند که هلموت ممکن است او را بکشد...

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

خلاصه داستان : جوخن ابزارساز جوان با همکارانش برای پاداش مبارزه می کند. او با دختر ماریون آشنا می شود. برای هر دو، عشق در نگاه اول است.

Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.