Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, after 46 years of silence they talk for the first time publicly about their violent experiences that have left such a mark.

《主观因素》是一部很个人的影片，德国著名女导演海科·桑德根据自己的亲身经历，以混合了故事片和纪录片的形式，向我们展示了东德二十世纪六十年代末（1967 －1970）的政治背景、社会状况和重要政治事件。
所有这一切都是透过片中女主角、一个年轻的单身母亲的主观视角观察的： 在她积极参与德国妇女解放运动的过程中，她亲历妇女解放的努力以及当时社会中的其它政治运动，设法解决社会中的问题，同时又有新的问题产生。女主角的主观世界不断地接收、认识和理解社会中所发生的一切，思想也随之慢慢改变。

How can a woman love a man without denying herself? Can two women love the same man without tearing each other apart? Can a man love two women without lying? What dilemmas will families and friends of the parties involved have to endure? To this day these are recurring and often painfull questions.