The town matchmaker searches for an honest match for Carolina, the daughter of a wealthy man. He finds it in the bumbling, stuttering Kuni Lemel, who has a remarkable resemblance to her lover, Max. Things go south when two Kuni Lemels arrive in town.

Drama um eine deutsch-jüdische Familie. Die Familie Zweifler steht vor einer wichtigen Entscheidung: Symcha Zweifler will das Feinkostimperium verkaufen, doch dadurch kommen die Anfänge des Geschäftsmannes im Frankfurter Rotlichtviertel unmittelbar nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wieder an die Oberfläche. Auch andere verdrängte Konflikte rücken wieder in den Vordergrund.

A San Francisco detective goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.