It is a Saturday in autumn, and Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and youngest sister Clara. This family gathering provides the occasion for a dinner together, at which other relatives appear over the course of the day. While the family members animate the apartment’s space with their conversations, everyday activities and cooking preparations, the cat and dog range through the various rooms. they too become a central element in this quotidian familial dance that repeatedly manifests stylized elements, disrupting any naturalistic mode of presentation. In this way, adjoining spaces open up between family drama, fairy tale and the psychological study of a mother.
During an unannounced visit to Berlin, Jakob and Hanna let their three grown up children know that they are no longer able to support them financially. Karla, Arnolt and Sonni seem to live successful city lives; but, on closer inspection, they are in the middle of different life-crises, which have a common cause: lack of independence. After a big family quarrel and a painful revelation of life-lies, every single relative is made aware of how little he or she knows about the others – though still interdependent.
A ação se passa logo após o final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, no interior da Sibéria, onde os russos e alemães, tem de conviver lado a lado, em uma terra desolada e doente, depois de terem suas vidas transformadas após a guerra.
Mel, ao ser confundida com um garoto, não desfaz o engano e a partir daí a situação complica-se cada vez mais. Principalmente porque a garota pela qual ela se apaixona tem um namorado muito ciumento e possessivo, uma “melhor” amiga não muito confiável e uma mãe que namora um policial
