A lonely teenage boy of divorced parents and an alcoholic mother makes friends with a mysterious man who moves into the flat opposite his.

Bela plays the piano, writes songs and trains in taekwondo. She lives with her father, who is a music producer. Her mother left for USA in the hope of an acting career. At the beginning of her first year of high school, Bela learns that her mother wants to come back into her life. In search of meaning and self-expression, Bela forms a band that represents freedom and a confession of her worldview.

Carinthia, southern Austria, 1942. Mila and her brother Hanzi, who are Slovenian, join the armed resistance to German occupation. Mila becomes a commander of a partisan group at the age of 20 and soon finds herself making decisions about life and death.