Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.

In a dystopian future world where people are trapped in prescribed, seemingly ideal life forms, a group of resistance fighters plots to overthrow this system.

East Berlin, 1989. With only confusing information provided by adults, Marko tries to understand why it's such a big deal that some wall has fallen down.