When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.
Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by...
게오르그는 대기업에서 일하고, 그의 아내 안나는 가족이 운영하는 상점에서 안경사 일을 한다. 어린 딸 에바는 몹시 귀엽고 똘똘하게 생겼다. 그런데 이들 가족은 문득 삶의 무감각과 단절감에 빠져든다. 그리고는 현실에 존재하지 않는 미지의 대륙으로 떠날 준비에 들어간다. 게오르그의 부모조차 도저히 받아들이기 힘든 방식으로 이들은 그 결심을 실천한다.
Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.
One day the landlord Smirnov demands the widow Popova to pay an old debt which her husband left. She has no money at home and begs Smirnov to wait. The polite conversation turns quickly into an argument. Popova fetches the pistols. Smirnov realizes now that he’s in love with Popova. He confesses his love.
