Mia and Laurenz spend the night together. In bed they create a world full of intimacy. A world where nothing is certain and anything is possible, where time and space become blurred. A made-up world, that feels more real than reality itself. Yet this world is as fragile and fleeting as the night.

Vienna, Austria, 1912. The brilliant painter Oskar Kokoschka, considered one of the main representatives of the expressionist movement, has a tumultuous relationship, both professional and romantic, with the composer Alma Mahler.