Storyline:
Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.

Cast:
Tom Schilling (as Kurt Barnert), Sebastian Koch (as Professor Carl Seeband), Paula Beer (as Ellie Seeband), Saskia Rosendahl (as Elisabeth May), Oliver Masucci (as Professor Antonius van Verten)