The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. When the homeless Hanna finds 100 German marks, she and her friend Victor want to splurge it all and spend the night in a hotel. Their search for a room escalates into a chaotic journey through the city as well as a very hard test of their relationship. The farmer Jochen is in Berlin looking for female companionship and bumps into the streetwise teenage prostitute Patty, who agrees to spend the entire night with him for a set price. Jochen becomes disappointed and turns violent when he realizes the reason why Patty is so keen on his money. Peschke is a burnt-out businessman waiting to pick up a colleague at the airport who doesn′t show up. He wrongly suspects an Angolan boy of stealing his money. To make amends, he offers to drive the boy to his relatives. Their journey ends up with Peschke losing his car and almost his mind. Night Shapes is a hard-edged and humorous look at life in Berlin at the end of this century.