When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

Marion experiences a day. It could be yesterday, but not tomorrow, because at the end of the day she is dead, stumbled in a moment of routine.

Tracing three generations of a family that is unable to process its past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern-day Berlin.