Am I Beautiful? is about longing, disappointment, and joy. Sketched out as a rondo of alliances and misalliances, the film follows a group of people seeking change who come together and eventually lose sight of one another again. Franziska marries the wrong man in order to put an end to her great but troubled love for Klaus; Klaus mourns his love for Franziska by wandering through Spain, until he finally meets up with Linda; Herbert has an affair with Jessica, who silently slashes her wrists in the bathtub in his house; Unna, Herbert’s wife, finds her old flame David again, who has lost all power of memory following a stroke. With her characters constantly in motion, Dörrie creates a world in which loss strikes deeper than fortune but is nonetheless imbued with a mordant sort of comedy.