影片讲述一个奥地利女作家陷入创作困境和与父亲、情人及男友三者复杂的关系之中，最后失去自我并神秘消失的故事。无名女作家与男友马利纳居住在维也纳的一所公寓内，他们的关系表面上看像一对夫妻但实际上却是柏拉图式的精神恋爱。直到女作家在街上偶遇伊万，一个更年轻的匈牙利人，她无法自拔的爱上了他并认定他是能拯救自己的人，她把所有在马利纳处无法得到的需求全部放在了伊万身上，但这却使他逐渐退缩而选择了别人，最终痛苦的女作家失去了本性。

一部温馨幽默的德国家庭剧，纠结了两代人的情感，历经波折最终获得大圆满结局。
顽固刻板的律师父亲对叛逆女儿有着异常细腻的爱，对女儿新任男友不甚满意，两人斗智斗勇发生了各种趣事......

Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.