Ferdinand and Roland have been friends since their childhood, but fate has treated each one very differently: while Ferdinand is a penniless author, Roland keeps making inheritances and is swimming in money. The flighty Renate has had affairs - and children - with both friends. Chaos ensues when Roland's friends join him in Majorca, where he's come to work out the trauma of his first marriage. But that is only the beginning of a series of misadventures involving friendships (and other neuroses).