2014年，彼得汉德克称诺贝尔文学奖“应该废除”，没想到2019年，自己却荣获了此项殊荣！现年（2020）77岁的汉德克总是语出惊人，是德语世界最受争议的作家。二战期间出生的他，于少年时期开始创作，自杀母亲和酗酒继父皆曾入笔。23岁发表剧作《冒犯观众》引爆空前轰动、一举改写剧场史，之后更与德国电影巨擘文温德斯共创影史经典。创作半世纪以来，这位腼腆却挑衅的作家，透过自己独到的文体与节奏，已挥就超过60部著作。
本片探索彼得汉德克如何从乡间青年步上文学之巅，剧组来到他的巴黎郊区住宅与他展开对话。跟随镜头，和汉德克一起穿越林间、走过四季，聆听他朗读游历随笔，分享他对蘑菇、针线活的热爱。他的妻女也相继入镜，为世人剖绘这位争议大师鲜为人知的过往细节，沐浴在稍纵即逝的日常灵光。

人到底為何而活？溫德斯自白這是他作品的核心命題。在片中可看到溫德斯早期的作品，以及影片如何真實反映導演的人際關係，甚至包括瀕死經驗的生命點滴。溫德斯真實誠摯回顧一生，童年、家庭、父母、電影，並訪問他生命中的重要人物，歷任妻子與長期工作夥伴，以及他們與溫德斯的關係，對於電影創作有興趣者不可錯過。

The first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three Lps. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Credence Clearwater Revival. It was mainly the music and some shots out of a car, landscapes out of the car window. And it had a little bit of commentary – dialogue between Peter and me about American music and about how American rock music was about emotion and images instead of sounds.

A beautiful, nameless woman is hired to spend several days and nights with a man in his apartment. Not only does he want to sleep with her, but he is obsessed with the desire to look at her naked body. A philosophical dialogue develops between the man who relates his thoughts and writes them down and the woman who explains to him the causes of his 'lethal sickness'. After the woman has left, the narrator and observer, dressed in black, appears. It is Peter Handke, the poet. Film essay about the man - woman relationship: 'Peter Handke's most personal, most permissive and at the same time, most reserved film.

This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and in detail about how the award-winning film was devised, cast, filmed, scored and edited.