Antonia, Fanny and Charlotte - we seem to know Doris Dörrie's main characters for a long time already. In brief episodes and stories we follow their lives: from teeny romanticism to the first bitter disappointments of their twens to the aberrations of the forties and fifties - Doris Dörrie's stories excel themselves in density and laconic accuracy. Her dry humour, her solid unpretentious way of narrating always concentrates on the development of her characters. She shows us in what funny but bitter ways the ravages of time prey upon us.