Ludo Decker (Schweiger) is a
Berlin-based
yellow press reporter. With photographer Moritz, his daily routine is to spy on celebrities for the
tabloid Das Blatt. He also uses his work for frequent sexual contacts with objects of his interest. Ludo and Moritz are on scene at the
engagement party of
heavyweight boxer and celebrity
Wladimir Klitschko and
Yvonne Catterfeld. As Klitschko raises his glass to
toast his fiancée, Ludo breaks through the glass dome roof and tumbles into the cake, to the great consternation of the guests. For this offense he is sentenced to three hundred hours of
community service at a local
Kindergarten (
daycare center). There he encounters
Kindergarten director Anna Gotzlowski (Tschirner), who grew up in the same neighborhood as Ludo and frequently endured his pranks and mockery. She exacts revenge for these childhood torments by assigning him to perform humiliating tasks. With his
parole at stake, Ludo has no choice but to comply. Nevertheless, he remains interested in
one-night stands and has an affair with Nina, mother of Cheyenne Blue, one of the children in his charge. Eventually tensions between Ludo and Anna dissipate and the two become friends. When Anna's date with a man goes awry, she appears at Ludo's flat seeking comfort. The two of them end up in bed, yet Anna's hopes that this will develop into something
more serious are dashed, as Ludo sees her only as a friend. Anna subsequently meets actor
Jürgen Vogel in a park and starts dating him. When she accompanies Vogel to the
German Film Awards ceremony, Ludo reports that she is the most beautiful woman in attendance, instead of covering female celebrities his
editor-in-chief deems more
newsworthy. The editor summarily
fires him. Ludo comes to realize that he feels more for Anna than he had previously thought. During a children's festival at a local theatre, he crashes a performance and professes his love for her, as she sits in the audience with the children. Having lost his job at the tabloid, he takes a position at the
Kindergarten. == Cast ==