A tale about 3 cleaning ladies in Berlin and their search for happiness. Ingeborg is pretty, lonely and unemployed. Struggling for a sense of purpose and searching for a new cleaning job as well as a man by her side. Both are very hard to find. Gisela is the “clown” in the cleaning brigade, whose job it is to make Berlin’s poshest shopping mall emerge spotless every morning. At home, Gisela experiences the well-ordered routine of a 35 year old marriage, but still a true and touching love story. Delia left Argentina as a young woman dreaming of becoming a successful painter in Europe. She has been cleaning the penthouses of wealthy Berliners for 12 years and is torn between professional pride and the feeling of having betrayed her dreams.