Elisabeth, a forty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.
A young woman is going on holiday with her parents. She narrowly escapes when her holiday fling tries to kill her, only to find out that this nasty encounter was not quite as accidental as it first seemed.
While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead...
호반에 위치한 기숙학교에 뱅상이 전학 온다. 친구들의 장난으로 고성에 갇힌 뱅상은 소녀 마리안느를 만나고, 둘은 사랑에 빠진다. 마리안느는 노인과의 강요된 결혼으로 갇힌 자기를 구해 달라고 호소한다. 피터 드 멘델슨의 동명소설을 각색한 작품으로, 안개 낀 성과 호수를 배경으로 젊은 날의 순수한 사랑과 방황을 극도로 절제되고 아름다운 화면을 통해 표현하였다.
