In Greece at the time of antiquity. In the year 600 before Christ, the 45th Olympic Games are held, which are all in the sign of the old city-renown Sparta-Athens.

After twenty years of radio silence, Vera receives a telegram from her father: she is to visit him in his castle. Once there, she learns that the old man has suffered a heart attack during the night. But this is just the beginning of a series of mysterious incidents that drive Vera to the brink of madness...

A Jewish professor returning from U.S. exile watches his Berlin university descend into militant ideological coercion during the 1968 reform struggles and ultimately decides to leave Germany again.