REAL LIFE Stories

Per­so­nal expe­ri­en­ces, inspi­ring sto­ries: peo­p­le talk about their chal­lenges and their search for love. Alt­hough they don’t know each other, they all have one thing in com­mon…

“Love is too pain­ful, I don’t want any­thing more to do with it!” Dori­na Kühn makes this decis­i­on as a young woman. Too many peo­p­le have dis­ap­poin­ted and hurt her and the hearta­che that torm­ents her is too gre­at. But at some point she has to admit to hers­elf: I may no lon­ger be hurt, but I no lon­ger have any joy eit­her…

He pulls the hand­bra­ke at full speed — just to see what hap­pens. Sebas­ti­an Banz­haf’s beha­vi­or is unpre­dic­ta­ble. Alt­hough he longs for accep­tance and love, he ruins all his fri­end­ships. He feels com­ple­te­ly wort­hl­ess and tri­es to numb hims­elf with alco­hol and drugs. On New Year’s Eve 2009, he hits rock bot­tom and gives God an ulti­ma­tum…

In her search for love, Sabi­ne Blö­chel gets caught up in the vicious cir­cle of an on-off rela­ti­onship. Jea­lou­sy, lies, chea­ting — she puts up with it all. The idea of being alo­ne seems even worse to her than this depen­dent rela­ti­onship. She gives up on hers­elf com­ple­te­ly — until she makes the sur­pri­sing dis­co­very that the­re real­ly is genui­ne, uncon­di­tio­nal love.

Joy and love — this is what Nathan Thur­low seeks the mea­ning of life. For 15 years, he tra­vels through Sou­the­ast Asia and tri­es every path that pro­mi­ses enligh­ten­ment: Bud­dhism, Hin­du­ism, medi­ta­ti­on, various gurus, extre­me yoga and drugs. In fact, he finds a love that tran­s­cends all his expe­ri­en­ces and satis­fies his lon­ging…

Moni­ca and Ste­fan’s rela­ti­onship is on the rocks. Argu­ments are the order of the day and both seek solace in extra­marital affairs. Gre­at love — over and done with? Far from it: becau­se not­hing is impos­si­ble for God.

What is truth — Çağ­daş Gün­gör is con­fron­ted with this ques­ti­on out of nowhe­re. Gro­wing up in a soci­al­ly depri­ved area, his life up to that point had been cha­rac­te­ri­zed by drugs, pro­sti­tu­ti­on, vio­lence and sen­se­l­ess­ness. He sets out on a search and sud­den­ly expe­ri­en­ces a super­na­tu­ral encoun­ter and a love that is not of this world…

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