Fred, a kiss researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry in Berlin, investigates what goes on in the human organism during kissing. Fred himself is single and has neither a wife nor a girlfriend to kiss. His wife has just divorced him. One day, in the window of an antique shop, he is magically attracted by a tray that shimmers in many colours. After buying the tray, he suddenly meets Luzie, a young writer who lives in the country with her friend Sibil. Luzie is doing everything she can to write a bestseller. The subject is the soul of the man, but things turn out differently. Fred falls in love with Luzie and Sibil and they both love him. Soon a strange love triangle develops between the three. Will they succeed in reinventing love, as Sibil puts it?