A un joven y ambicioso ejecutivo le encargan una misión: traer de vuelta al director de su empresa de un idílico y enigmático centro de “bienestar” situado en un área remota de los Alpes suizos. Pronto sospecha que los milagrosos tratamientos que allí tienen lugar no son lo que parecen. Su cordura se pone a prueba cuando empieza a desvelar los terroríficos secretos que allí se ocultan y es diagnosticado con la misma extraña enfermedad que mantiene a los pacientes a la espera de la cura.
Wagner is a cop, a man who doesn't talk much, unlike Zippolt, the guy he has to sit in the car with. Both men are ordered to give close protection to Siegfried, a suspected murderer. Wagner lives in an old fashioned apartment, he counts birds, listens to Richard Wagner's operas, sees a lot, does little, meets a woman, gets entangled - and in the end he loses his countenance. A story about good-wanting and wrong-doing, about relationships and people in contemporary Berlin.
Nelly Sue Edelmeister, es la reina de las nerds. Es una excelente alumna de trece años de Berlín, fascinada por la astronomía, que tiene muy poca vida social, y una muy mala relación con su madre. Nelly vive con su padre alemán, un trompetista de jazz, y su madre judía-americana, cuyo objetivo es que Nelly pueda realizar su Bat Mitzva. Ella, sin entender nada de la vida judía, se siente presionada, y más atraída por los misterios del cosmos. Mantiene su fructífera vida interior, que aparecen en la película, en imágenes brillantes y música que animan a sus pensamientos y sueños.
19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...
Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance, which they like to experience up to life-threatening situations. But when film director Frank Morris gets stranded in the solitude of their east-German village, things start changing for all three of them.
