Barbara Dittus

Margit is a single mother in her mid-thirties with two daughters by different men. Looking back on her failed relationships, Margit realizes that her life has been shaped by perceived social expectations and that she has always allowed the men in her life to choose her. Although she is already romantically involved with a woman, a newly liberated Margit decides to win the affections of a male colleague, as lover and a father for her children. (anonymous)

2 coworkers have to work on christmas eve while one of them becomes a child.

The King and Queen plan an opulent feast to celebrate the birth of their long-awaited daughter. But there are thirteen fairies, and only twelve golden plates - so the king instructs his messenger to leave one fairy out, the Fairy of Industry. Furious, she arrives at the celebration and curses the child: on her fifteenth birthday, the child will prick her finger on a spindle and die. In an attempt to prevent the curse from taking effect, the King orders that all spindles in the kingdom be burned.