El misterioso asesinato en 1989 del presidente del Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, que se encontraba cerca de su casa cuando su Mercedes-Benz blindado fue atravesado por una explosión que se produjo en las cercanías.

一个家庭难以谈论感情、爱或亲密关系。购买、出租和修理挖掘机需要整个家庭的关注。每个人都必须参与其中。当女儿遭遇不幸事故后，家庭的和谐生活就此破灭。儿子宁愿去美国也不愿接管公司。父亲喜欢上了新的唱诗班指挥，而母亲突然发现自己孤身一人。

16 year-old Lena is a modern heroine ready to do anything to win over the love of her life. The problem lies in the fact that the 'love of her life' is her brother, Noah. He is everything to her: a brother, a friend and in her own oneiric universe, her lover. She is gripped by a real obsession. He is a powerful drug that drives her further away from a world she knows would judge her severely. The reality that surrounds her slowly but inexorably transforms her, pushing her further and further into madness. To distract herself, she encourages Noah's friend Enis. But she is so obsessed with her brother that she cannot curb her feelings. When she decides to openly confess her love to her brother, the rejection is palpable and drives her to find refuge in an unknown world of daydreams and disquieting illusions-allusions.

Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.