Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has created any truly significant work.

About the life of the great Spanish painter, engraver and graphic Francisco Jose de Goya (1746-1828), whose works are distinguished by bold innovation, passionate emotions, the exigencies of the characteristics and social direction grotesque.

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.