Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter tells the story of five ordinary Germans in their early twenties, raised in the same neighbourhood, sucked into the madness of the time between 1941 and 1945. Wilhelm, Friedhelm, Greta, Viktor and Charlotte say goodbye to each other and promise each other everlasting friendship. The five friends from Berlin each have their own view of the Second World War and they each get involved in it in their own way.