母亲安娜把自己的女儿英加留在了东德，自己逃往西部。英加在梅克伦堡的一个偏远小镇长大，和祖父母生活在一起，以为自己母亲淹死在波罗的海，祖父母 就是这么告诉她的。直到英加长成年轻姑娘，她才知道事实并非如此，她在怪癖的文学教授的帮助下横跨德国寻找母亲。电影是一部悲情的公路电影，一个关于生活谎言、沉默和遭排挤、关于负罪感的故事。
Malchow, East Germany, 1980. Twenty-year-old Anne is hiding Juri (Ilja Pletner), a Red Army deserter. With Juri facing a death sentence the couple flee to the West, leaving Anne’s infant daughter Inga in the care of her grandparents. Twenty-five years later Inga (Anna Maria Mühe) has grown up believing her mother is dead. When approached by Robert (Ulrich Matthes), a literature professor from the former West German town of Konstanz, Inga begins to doubt her past and begins a search for the truth. As her road trip with Robert continues, his hidden motives begin to surface.

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.