Spatz in der Hand plot
Sabine (Kostanze Breitebner), editor of a women's magazine, finds out that her husband, the conductor Bodo (Walter Sittler), is cheating on her with the talented young writer Simone (Marion Mitterhammer). In revenge, she has telephone sex with the neighbor across the street, the photographer Carl (Stefan Hunstein) and pretends to be her husband's mistress. The next day it turns out that she has to do an interview with Simone with the new photographer for the magazine, Carl. She concocts another plan for revenge, but it goes completely wrong.