圣诞前夕，结束国外工作的马蒂亚斯，返回到他土生土长的罗马尼亚特兰西瓦尼亚多民族山村。马蒂亚斯一边担心着儿子鲁迪从罗马尼亚母亲安娜那里受到的教育，一边渴望着再次见到他的匈牙利前情人奇拉。
他发现他的儿子和整座村庄都笼罩在一种奇怪的非理性恐惧和不安的阴影之下。当奇拉管理的面包店雇佣了两名外国工人时，根深蒂固的冲动和怨恨涌现，冲突横生和情绪爆发，社区和平的表象被打破。

In the midst of the impassable landscape at the foot of the Alps, a young group of serious offenders is undergoing an experiential educational program intended to rehabilitate them. All of a sudden, a member of the program dies a violent death. Nobody knows exactly what happened, and the youths face a difficult decision. Should they wait for the authorities to recover the body and investigate the crime? Or, escape and take their fate into their own hands? The group doesn't have much in common with each other, though one thing unites them; all of them have had really bad experiences with the authorities and don‘t expect to be treated fairly. Since they don't know who the perpetrator is, they only have one option: to run. Up the mountains, up the highest peaks of the Alps. It seems hopeless until they stumble onto a complex cave system where they can find shelter from wind, weather, and their pursuers. In their fight against the forces of nature, they form their own society, according to their own rules: the Wild Republic.

一群罪犯被发配到阿尔卑斯山，旅程起先平静，直到发生了一起可怕的事故，一名护理人员离奇死亡…

17世紀初，在德國的某個地方，一名神秘的士兵來到一個孤立的新教村莊。这个陌生人天性娇小而谦虚，脸上因伤疤而毁容，他宣称自己是一个废弃已久的农场的继承人，并出示了一份文件来支持他对可疑村民的索赔。随着时间的流逝，他克服了他们的疑虑，证明了自己是一个勤奋、敬畏上帝的人，成为他们社区的一部分。然而，他对接受的追求建立在一个大胆的谎言之上。一个骗子真实而曲折的故事，她藐视自己作为女人的出生，把自己当作男人，欺骗了一个村庄。

Berlin, 2004, Yusuf wird mitten auf dem Fußballplatz festgenommen. Der Vorwurf: mehrfacher Bankraub. Die Frage: Wer waren seine Komplizen? Schweigen bedeutet Gefängnis, Reden Verrat. Doch wer hat ihn verpfiffen und warum ausgerechnet ihn? Nichts ist wie es zunächst scheint.