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The movie opens with a series of questions about humanity and what we know to be true. After the credits, the camera zooms into a house and stops at a ringing telephone. Lola picks up and begins talking to Manni. Manni is in a telephone booth and questions her about where shes been and that she was supposed to be waiting for him at the spot they had planned on. She tells him some guy stole the moped she was on while she was in the store and that it happened so fast she couldnt catch up to him. Manni begins to cry and tells Lola that he made a big mistake and claims theyre going to kill him. Lola asks him what happened and he begins to recollect the events. He says everything was going as planned; the car transactions went well, he got the diamonds he needed and crossed the border successfully and his encounter with a dealer went well and he got the money he needed: 100,000 marks. All that was missing was her waiting for him at the spot. He walked to the train station and got on but then a bum bumped into him and fell. He helped him up but then two security guards got on and on instinct he got off leaving the bag of money on the seat. He did not realize it until a minute or two later. He tried to go back and get it but was stopped by the two security guards. The train left with the bag of money and the bum opened it and immediately grabbed on to it. He tells Lola he would not be in this situation if she had been there on time. He blames her for being so sensitive and for believing love can solve anything so he tells her to come up with 100,000 marks in twenty minutes because that is all the time he has left before he has to meet Ronnie, his boss, and turn in the money or else hell kill him. He begins to tell her that over and over again until Lola screams Stop so loud, a few glasses on her TV set break. She finally tells him that she will come up with something in twenty minutes. She tells him to stay where he is and shell get him the money. He gets desperate and spots a store across from his phone booth and tells her that hes going rob it because thats the only way he can come up with that much money in twenty minutes. Lola thinks hes crazy and tells him again not to move from there and she tosses the phone and begins to think who she can go to. Images of possible people flash in her head until she finally decides on her dad.First Run: She begins to run through the city and she bumps into a woman and her baby in a carriage. Then in a series of photo shots, it depicts the womans future and her baby is being taken away from her by social services and her taking someone elses baby in a park. It returns to Lola running meanwhile her dad and a woman is having a conversation in his office at a bank. The woman is telling him that she cannot go on lying and doesnt know who she will wait for a man who doesnt want to be with her. Meanwhile Lola is still running and encounters a guy on a bike who while riding next to her wants to sell her the bike for 50 marks but she says no. Then in a series of photo shots, his future is shown and he gets beat up by some men and his bike is taken away. He ends up in a hospital where he meets a nurse and they get married. It goes back to Lola running and crosses in front a car that barley misses hitting her. The man driving stares at her and doesnt see the other car coming and crashes into it. Manni is still in the booth. He is talking to someone and asks the person what hes supposed to do with 500 marks. He hangs up and returns the phone card to the blind lady he borrowed it from but she doesnt take it. Meanwhile, Lolas dad and the woman are still talking and she tells him he has to decide whether or not he wants to be with her because shes pregnant. Lola finally reaches her dads work and is running to his office but accidentally bumps into a clerical worker. Again, in a series of photo shots, her future is shown and she gets into a car accident and is paralyzed then she commits suicide. Lola finally reaches her dads office and asks him for help. She tells him she needs 100,000 marks or her boyfriend will die. He starts to ask questions about her boyfriend and she tells him It doesnt matter in a scream so loud, she breaks the glass wall clock. He then walks her out and tells her he is leaving her mother and marrying another woman and that he is not her father and throws her out. Lola is dazed for a little bit then exits the bank. A lady approaches her and asks her whats wrong but Lola asks for the time and begins to run again. Manni is on the phone with someone and seems frustrated so he walks up to the store he plans on robbing and looks inside. Meanwhile, Lola is running and repeating over and over for Manni to wait for her. Manni makes up his mind and enters the store and Lola gets there too late because hes already pointing a gun and telling the cashiers to open the cash registers. She bangs on the window glass and asks him why he didnt wait for her and he tells her she got here too late. He then asks her if shes with him and at first she just wants to go but then she grabs a bag of glass bottles from a lady nearby, goes in and hits the security guard on the head. She grabs the gun from him and covers for Manni while he gets the money from the registers and they take off. Theyre running but the police blocks them on one end so they run the other way but they get blocked in from that side as well. Manni throws the bag of cash at the police and cop, while looking up at the bag, accidentally fires his drawn gun and hits Lola in the chest. She falls back and Manni goes to her. She thinks back to when she and Manni were in bed together and she questions his love for her. Manni finally asks her if she wants to leave and she replies no, she does not want to leave and then says Stop and the movie goes back to the beginning.Second Run: She hangs up the phone and begins running with her dad already in mind. She bumps into the same woman and her baby. This time in the series of photo shots, the woman wins the lotto and is happy. Lola continues to run and encounters the man on the bike again but this time his photo shots depict him as a bum and a drug junkie. She keeps running and instead of crossing the car, she jumps over it but the man still crashes into the other car because hes staring at her. She continues to run and bumps into the homeless guy with the bag of cash. She obviously does not know he has the money and keeps running. Meanwhile, her dad and the woman are having the same conversation and she asks him if he wants to have a baby with her even though it might not be his. At that moment, Lola enters the bank and this time as shes running to her dads office, she doesnt bump into the clerical worker. She gets to the office and finds them arguing. This time he is telling the woman he cannot leave his sick wife and three kids. He tells Lola to leave them alone and to go home but she tells him she needs money. The woman tells her she should be ashamed for barging in on them and Lola calls her a stupid cow and her dad slaps her across the face. Lola begins to throw objects at her dad and leaves on her own. As she exits, the security guard tells her she cant always have what she wants and she walks back but takes the guards gun with her. She reaches her dad again and tells him to go with her but not before she shoots at the wall next to his head to let him know shes serious. She holds the gun to his head as theyre walking out and the clerical worker tries to stop them but Lola tells her to get lost. This time in the clerical workers photo shots, she meets someone within the bank who likes to play dominatrix with her. Lola and her dad reach the front of the bank and tells one of the tellers to bag 100,000 marks but he only has 88,000 marks and he has to go downstairs to get the rest. He returns and Lola tells him to put the money in the garbage can and she takes the bag and leaves. The police have the bank surrounded already and she just stands there staring at them but then the police tell her to get out of the way. They think its someone else holding up the bank so she begins to run to Manni. Manni is looking in to the store hes going to rob but just as he makes up his mind to go in, Lola calls him and he turns around to go to her but as he is crossing the street, he gets run over by an ambulance. This time as he is lying on the street, he flashes back to when he and Lola are in bed together and asks her what she would do if he died and they go back and forth on the issue until Lola finally tells him he isnt dead yet and the movie returns to the beginning again.Third Run: Lola hangs up the phone for a third time and starts to run through the city again. She encounters the woman with the baby but this time doesnt bump into her. This time the womans photo shots depict her having a religious awakening. She encounters the guy on the bike but this time he doesnt try to sell her the bike and instead pulls into a sausage stand and the bum with the money is there. The bum offers to buy the guy a drink and tells him some unexpected things can happen but the guy tries to sell him the bike for 70 marks. Meanwhile, Lola is running and this time she stumbles on the hood of the car of the man and they recognize each other. He is Mr. Meyer, her dads associate and he asks her if everythings okay and she replies no and continues running. Meanwhile, the bum ends up buying the bike and riding it throughout the city. Lolas dad and the woman are conversing and the woman asks him if he wants to have a baby with her. He says yes but then is interrupted by his secretary on the phone. She says Mr. Meyer is outside waiting for him so the dad goes to him. Just as theyre pulling off, Lola reaches the bank and she sees them and yells for them to stop. Meanwhile, Manni is getting out of the phone booth and he returns the phone card to the blind lady. She tells him to wait and turns to look out on the street. Manni follows her gaze and when he does that, the bum on the bike is riding through the street. Manni recognizes him and chases after to him and he almost gets run over by Mr. Meyer but Meyer swerves and hits another car head on. Meanwhile Lola is still running and thinking about what to do and she almost gets run over too by a truck but she spots a casino and goes in. She gets a 100 mark chip and places her bet at a roulette table. She wins 3,500 marks but she bets it all again on the same number and as the roulette wheel is spinning, she starts to scream really loud and it breaks champagne glasses the people are holding. She wins the 100,000 marks she needs and takes off again to find Manni. Meanwhile, Manni stops the bum by pointing a gun at him and he takes the money but the bum then asks for the gun and Manni gives it to him. Lola runs and gets into the back of an ambulance and there is a sick man there. His heart rate is irregular and she claims to be with him and holds his hand and his heart beat regulates. She gets out of the ambulance and calls out for Manni but he isnt there. Then she sees him getting out of a car about a block away with Ronnie. They shake hands and Manni begins to walk towards her and he asks her if everythings okay and they begin walking together. After a minute or so, he asks her whats in the bag shes carrying and the movie ends in a photo shot.