Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.　　该片由塞巴斯蒂安·科赫、汤姆·希林、葆拉·贝尔出演，源于真实事件，讲述艺术学生Kurt Barnert爱上了同学Ellie Seeband，Ellie的爸爸Carl Seeband却不喜欢他，但他们的命运仍被多年前一起可怕的罪行联系在了一起。事关Barnert的身世：他是从东德逃往西德……