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Axel Feldheim (Til Schweiger) is a handsome, open-minded heterosexual whose girlfriend Doro (Katja Riemann) has just thrown him out for cheating on her. Seeking a new home, Axel is introduced to Walter "Waltraut" (Rufus Beck), a homosexual who finds Axel quite attractive. Walter takes Axel to a gay party where they meet Norbert Brommer (Joachim Król), who has a big apartment and is more than willing to let Axel stay for a while because he thinks he can seduce him. Preening cross-dresser Walter and sad-faced Norbert offer us a choice of gay stereotypes. Suddenly, Axel goes from hunter to hunted as he tries to fend off the advances of Norbert and a host of other homosexual suitors. But as Axel becomes closer to his new friends, they think that maybe he is gay, maybe not. This gives room for a lot of funny incidents between the gay world and the so called "normal".
Meanwhile, Doro finds out that she is pregnant from Axel and she tries to get him back, not knowing that he now lives among homosexuals. Doro shows up at the apartment and is not amused to find Norbert, naked, hidden in a wardrobe, but Axel manages to convince her that nothing happened. Axel is very happy about becoming a father and getting back together with Doro and forgets about his relationship with Norbert. Doro goes into labour and Norbert drives her to the hospital, explaining everything to her. Unfortunately, just when you think the film is liberating and subversive, the finale ends up endorsing the heterosexual couple it's been trying to undercut.
Billed as the most successful German comedy of all time, much of the dialogue in this funny film was taken directly from the two gay comic books "Der bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby" by underground cartoonist Ralf König. Though the comics were written from a gay perspective, the film is slanted towards heterosexual couples. Torsten Breuer composed the original music, and Sönke Wortmann wrote the screenplay derived from Ralf König's comics. Sönke Wortmann directed. In German with English subtitles, although there is a dubbed English version available. The English titles are "Maybe, Maybe Not", "Most Desired Man", and The Turbulent Man".
