"Immer gehen, wenn's am besten ist" lautet das Lebensmotto des jungen Berliner Fotografen Werther. Bei seinem Verleger hat er dessen Freundin kennen gelernt, eine junge Frau von düsterer Schönheit, die sich seinem Werben allerdings widersetzt. Trotzdem lädt sie ihn in eine einsame Hütte ein. Werther folgt ihr, zwei skurrile Freunde im Schlepptau, und erweckt mit seiner Hartnäckigkeit alsbald den Zorn von Lottes Freund. Als er sie endlich erobert hat, nimmt er sich das Leben.

Full of anticipation, the young and ambitious Commissioner Carsten Lanner (Florian Lukas) is moving from Berlin Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony for a further education. However, he did not expect the outspoken chutzpah of the Berliners and, above all, the rude nature of his colleagues, who in no way received him with open arms. And so he slips more accidentally than wanted shortly after his arrival in Berlin in his first case.

In Anröchte happens a massacre in which people are beheaded randomly. While investigating the case, the two investigating commissioners Konka and Walter discover the dark side of the town.

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.

We are in East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes.

2008 film by Stephen Daldry