Shortly before his wedding, Manfred, a young farmer, travels to Vienna to look for a friend who owes him 80,000 shillings. During the course of a most unusual and succinctly comic odyssey he meets Gina, a girl from Italy. An Austrian road movie containing a Babel of languages.

Victor is a journalist, his wife Vanessa is in health care writing a thesis on how some women use sex to get what they want. One morning she tells him he's stopped listening to her, stopped trying to figure out her needs, and hasn't satisfied her for months. At a bar two hours later, a seductive married women, whom he nicknames Cappuccino, comes onto him, inviting him to play a game. She gives him a phone number missing the last digit, meets him in an abandoned house, appears in his shower while Vanessa's at work: soon he's obsessed even as Vanessa tries to regain his attention. When Cappuccino shows up with a black eye, Victor decides her abusive husband must be stopped.

The story is told through the eyes of Max, a stand-up comedian and taxi driver, who gets involved in a blackmail case and lands in prison. Max uses his time in prison to tell the story of his friends' lives. He also writes a script for himself and the other four actors, with unexpected results.

Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years is a British television series which was first aired on BBC One in 2001. The series was based on the fifth book from the Adrian Mole series, The Cappuccino Years. The series was produced by Tiger Aspect/Little Dancer Production for the BBC.