After picking her up from the train station, the two roommates are very excited to show Brigitta their apartment. She is impressed, but also very tired from traveling.

The next candidate to take over Nawin's room also fails to make a good impression on the group.

Marga meets Herr Ohrmann's daughter, who is studying law, and asks if she could get some legal help in exchange for teaching her how to cook.

A first potential new housemate comes to look at the room and takes a tour of the group's Wohngemeinschaft (shared apartment).

Lilly learns that it is because of her mother's escape to West Germany that Lena had to stop teaching school. Katrin, certain that Lilly will be send back to the West, continues to be mean to her.

Julia and Marie have recently moved to Berlin and are waiting for their friend Brigitta to arrive for a visit.

Nele Ebeling takes Marga home with her to work as a cook, and Marga makes an interesting discovery when meeting Nele's husband!

Nico can't stay in the shared apartment anymore, but Lisa gives him some ideas where he might possibly stay.

Nico is disappointed to find out they have the wrong address for his aunt's bike shop.

Rolf and Lena discuss how Lilly could possibly stay in the GDR. In the morning, Lena tries to break the tension that has settled in their household.

Nico comes by after Lisa is finished teaching. While Lisa is on the phone with a potential new housemate, Nico takes a look around the room.

Lilly realizes that she has made things very complicated for Lena and her family. Lena's husband Rolf asks an old friend for a favor.

Lisa teaches her students the importance of learning nouns along with their articles so that the gender gets memorized as well.

When Marga Engel goes to the unemployment office, she meets a woman who is in urgent need of an experienced cook.

After Lena's son Till finds Lilly and brings her up to the apartment, she quickly realizes that things will not be nearly as simple as she had imagined.