Ku´damm 59

Berlin, 1957: Monika reaches the Schöllacks apartment in a very pregnant state. She has lost her home and wants to live in her old home. But mother Caterina rejects her. As a single pregnant Monika is also critically eyed in the hospital. When she awakens from the delirium of a childbed fever, Caterina has arranged everything and housed Dorli with foster parents: Monika's sister Helga and her husband Wolfgang. Two years later. Dorli is the glue for the marriage of Helga and Wolfgang, because it helps to conceal his homosexuality.

Monika and Joachim still love each other, and Monika wants to spend her life with him. But Joachim makes a confession Monika, which prevents a relationship of the two. Desperate, Monika plunges into her film career - also, so that her daughter Dorli is later proud of her. But soon Monika feels that she can not be happy in the created world of the film business, and causes a scandal. Meanwhile, Fassbender's methods of letting Eva feel his power become increasingly sadistic. Eva escapes from her marriage and rents her own apartment with the help of her sister Monika. But she soon realizes how narrow the boundaries are, in which she can move as a single woman. Helga has since found out that Wolfgang has seriously fallen in love with a colleague. When she seeks refuge with her mother Caterina, however, she is busy with herself, because Kurt Moser has shown his true nature.

Monika founds a blues band with Freddy and successfully completes her first appearances. Since Eva is suddenly found unconscious in her apartment with a bad head injury. But not the jealous Fassbender is arrested, but Joachim. Because Eva is sure that Joachim was in her apartment. Monika wonders if Joachim could really commit such an act and goes in search of an alibi. She meets Ninette and finds out why Ninette denied Joachim an alibi. Will Monika be able to help Joachim? Meanwhile, Helga stands in front of a pile of shards. Wolfgang, who has found in his colleague Hans Liebknecht his first real love, would like to leave her - and that, even though she just gave birth to him a healthy child. Helga can not and will not accept his decision. Caterina also makes a consistent decision after Kurt Moser's scandalous behavior.