A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her wife. When a French director stages a play of his, he meets Rita again in Paris and the two women become a happy couple.

• Herbert Achternbusch Filmproduktion
• Annamirl Bierbichler
• Christiane Cohendy
• Barbara Valentin
• Armin Mueller-Stahl
• Eva Mattes
• Josef Bierbichler
• Herbert Achternbusch
• Tchéky Karyo