- To realize their culinary and boxing dreams, the daughter of a billionaire forms a mutually beneficial alliance with the son of a struggling single mom.
- Rich girl Isabella, a culinary wanna-be, hooks up with poor boy Oscar, a would-be prize fighter, to strong-arm her parents into permitting her to enter a culinary school (which they deem unbefitting) by dating him. Both come from disagreeable families and would seem worlds apart, but their same taste in rap music suggests an underlying compatibility that their surface differences (and artificial relationship) would project.—statmanjeff
- Isabelle "Isi" Voigt (Lisa Vicari) lives with her upper-class family (net worth of $2 BN ++) in Heidelberg while Oscar "Ossi" Markowski (Dennis Mojen) lives with his single mother (net worth of $27) in a small flat in Mannheim. Despite her privileged upbringing and her parents' wishes for her to attend university, Isi aspires to attend a culinary school in New York and become a chef. When Issi was a teenager, her mother fired the entire kitchen staff as Issi was spending time with them and as a result she had to repeat a year in school. She eventually graduates after repeating high school twice and receiving the worst marks in the schools 400 yr old history. Camilla (Zoë Straub), Isi's best friend Ossi (was intelligent and curious) trains to become a professional boxer (as his noisy class fed his aggressive behavior at school) but is forced to frequently miss training sessions and work at his mother's gas station.
Ossi's mother, Betty (Lisa Hagmeister), is EUR14,000 in debt and Ossi's sponsor for his upcoming professional match has pulled out, believing that Ossi's frequent absences from training display a lack of commitment. This leaves Ossi in need of EUR8000 for his match to continue. Isi requests access to her deposit account to fund her culinary ambitions in New York (After she learns that her parents have been fixing her grades via a lawyer and that her father paid an intern to date her), but her mother, Claudia (Christina Hecke), informs her that she will not get the money until she turns 25 and has graduated from university. Isi then applies for a job at a burger joint in Mannheim, meeting Ossi there (who happened to be having lunch there). She asks Ossi out in order to blackmail her parents into allowing her access to her inheritance. After a discussion with his mother (Betty is in favor of scamming Issi out of her money) and his best friend, Tschünni (Walid Al-Atiyat), Ossi reluctantly agrees to date Isi for money.
After a bad "first date" where Isi's parents find and interrupt the fake couple, Isi ends up joining Ossi in picking his grandfather (Ernst Stötzner) up from prison. Grandpa had been in and out of prison for 14 years (he used to rob retail stores and get caught due to his stupidity) and is ecstatic in reuniting with his grandson, although Ossi is embarrassed to be associated with him, even more so when Grandpa reveals his ambition to become a professional rapper. Fed up with Grandpa and no longer wanting to deceive Isi, Ossi reveals to her that he just wanted to swindle EUR8000 out of her. The two meet again later and Isi offers to pay for Ossi's fight on the condition that they continue to pretend to be a couple; if she successfully gains access to her inheritance, she will provide him with EUR25,000 in total. Ossi needs to deposit 5000 euros within a day to secure the fight, but Isi's parents have blocked her access to all her funds. she asks Ossi to come to her place to apply more pressure on her parents.
The two meet up with Grandpa at a nightclub where he participates in a rap battle. He initially fumbles much to Ossi's embarrassment, but soon wins over the crowd with his rapping and humorous insults towards his opponent. Isi and Ossi begin to bond over their shared interests and support each other's ambitions. Isi and Ossi make out in her house to alarm her parents. Her father interrupts them and Isi declares that she is moving in with Ossi. Isi genuinely respects Ossi's family and their lack of pretension. Ossi also displays academic excellence, which makes Isi wonder if he could have achieved more in life if he had her educational experience and upbringing. Still, he reiterates his true dream of fighting professionally. Isi sees how Ossi's mom interrupts his fight training sessions to pressure him to work at the gas station.
A video of Grandpa's rapping goes viral and he lands a record deal. He, Isi, Ossi and Tschünni celebrate at a nightclub. Isi further encourages Ossi to pursue better boxing management in Frankfurt and to leave his mother's gas station behind. They make out unprompted and go back to Ossi's place, where he takes care of her in her drunken state. Isi comments that Betty does not appear to like her, which Ossi denies.
The next morning, Isi's parents (father Manfred Voigt (Hans-Jochen Wagner)) appear at Ossi's flat and grants her access to her deposit account. They demand that she end her relationship with Ossi, which she verbally agrees to in order to placate her parents, but Ossi overhears this and assumes that Isi will abandon him. While they have breakfast, Isi transfers the EUR25,000 into Ossi's account as agreed, but he treats her coldly. An argument escalates as Isi tells him that he does not have to incur his mother's debts due to her financial irresponsibility; Ossi argues that he will not abandon his family and suggests that rich people do not understand what it means to support one another. Isi leaves.
The breakup affects Isi badly and she accidentally gets her kind but dim-witted coworker, Gabriella, fired. Ossi's boxing also suffers from the breakup. Isi discovers that she has over two million euros in her account and anonymously donates some of it (500,000 euros) to Gabriella. Grandpa's rapping career takes off and he tells Ossi that he has earned EUR30,000. Ossi meets Isi outside of her mansion and returns her EUR25,000. Although she insists on him keeping the money, they get into another argument where they accuse the other of deceiving them from the beginning. Isi also claims that Betty has been an irresponsible mother. Ossi returns the money and storms off. Isi's parents overhear the argument and realize that the two genuinely cared for each other. Claudia apologizes to her daughter and confesses that she had discouraged Isi's dream in order for her to live a life free of poverty, which she had experienced as a child.
Ossi uploads a video of Isi vomiting. In response, Isi calls Ossi's opponent and pays him to call off the fight. Both have a huge argument over this. While Isi is working, Ossi appears at the burger joint in need of her car; they rush to stop Grandpa in the middle of a fight with a youth who insulted him online. Ossi calms his grandfather, who admits that he is having trouble readjusting to society. Ossi comforts Grandpa and assures that he will help him. When Isi and Ossi are left alone, the latter confesses his love for her and reveals his insecurity that he may not be good enough for Isi.
Ossi returns to his mother's gas station where she tells him to fleece Isi for more money. Seeing Betty's irresponsibility and lack of respect towards Isi for the first time, he refuses. He tells his mother to sell the gas station and find another job, leaving her for his upcoming match. At the boxing venue, Ossi nervously awaits his first professional match. Betty arrives to support her son; she apologizes for her previous actions and promises him that she will find another job. Grandpa and Tschünni are also in attendance.
Isi arrives at the match and sees Ossi struggling against his opponent. She rushes to his side during the rest period and affirms her love for him and Ossi's worth as a person, also telling him that she has bought the burger joint and will stay in Germany with him. Ossi tells her that he may not be able to buy her luxuries; Isi playfully retorts that she accepts that so long as he does not make fun of her tastes. Reinvigorated, he fights his opponent aggressively and finally defeats him. Isi, Betty, Grandpa and Tschünni rush into the ring and embrace Ossi, celebrating his victory.
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