The story centers on (Senta Berger) and her 14-year-old son, Florian (Götz Behrendt), who live together on a secluded, dilapidated farm in the countryside. While Anneliese's husband and daughter work in the city, she focuses her entire existence and all her unfulfilled ambitions on Florian.
The year is 1985. East Germany is five years away from collapse. Anna is a West German translator working under a precarious visa in East Berlin. Viktor is a political prisoner in Hohenschönhausen Prison—a notorious Stasi detention center. They meet not under the sun, but through a ventilation grate. Anna, tasked with translating interrogation transcripts for the Stasi, hears Viktor humming a forbidden Czech folk song through the air ducts.
The story centers on (Senta Berger) and her 14-year-old son, Florian (Götz Behrendt), who live together on a secluded, dilapidated farm in the countryside. While Anneliese's husband and daughter work in the city, she focuses her entire existence and all her unfulfilled ambitions on Florian.
The year is 1985. East Germany is five years away from collapse. Anna is a West German translator working under a precarious visa in East Berlin. Viktor is a political prisoner in Hohenschönhausen Prison—a notorious Stasi detention center. They meet not under the sun, but through a ventilation grate. Anna, tasked with translating interrogation transcripts for the Stasi, hears Viktor humming a forbidden Czech folk song through the air ducts.