伊莎贝尔在竭尽全力照顾年迈的父母的同时，也深陷于婚姻破裂的困境之中。当她遇到单亲妈妈安雅后，这段新的联系让她不得不面对自己精心构筑的生活的脆弱本质。

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.

Anna Bronsky 是一所音乐重点中学的小提琴老师。她不顾其他老师的反对招收了一个名叫亚历山大的天才学生，在他身上她发现了非比寻常的天赋，当她在她的联合音乐会上失败后，她的压力越来越大，并把所有的注意力都放在了她的学生亚历山大身上。到了考试那天，终于一切都走向崩溃。