Verano de 1788 en Rudolstadt, una pequeña ciudad rural de Alemania. La hermosa Caroline von Beulwitz está infelizmente casada, deseando amar y vivir plenamente. Charlotte von Lengefeld, su tímida hermana, sueña con encontrar un marido. Las dos son un solo corazón y una sola alma, hasta que él entra en sus vidas: Friedrich Schiller, el poeta que escribió "The Robbers", que se convirtió en una sensación de la noche a la mañana, y adalid de los ideales republicanos protorrevolucionarios. Durante el cálido verano, las dos mujeres compiten por él.
Jürgen Stoll is not only a Filou and life artist, but the darling of many women. When the marriage swindler is given the choice, prison in the GDR or a career as "Romeo" in the FRG, he decides to go to the West. Stoll now plays in the big game of secret agents until he realizes that the Stasi still has very different plans with him.
Police officer Eva Meyer re-visits the orphanage where she grew up with the intent of unraveling her confused identity. Stasi archives reveal that her birth was the result of a one-night stand between her mother and one of her husband’s students, a Kenyan. Her family’s plot to hide her birth, metaphorically mirrors Germany’s suppressed history in this noire thriller.
On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political leadership. The story takes place in Bitterfeld and tells the story of a family involved in the political events around 17 June.
