"Flucht in den Norden" is a somewhat lackluster drama set in Finland in 1934. Johanna is a young woman who has fled Nazi Germany to visit her old university friend Karin at her family's estate in Finland. Quickly, it becomes clear that the two are more than just friends, as they resume what can only be assumed as a recurring love affair. Upon arriving at the friend's family estate, Johanna's anti-fascist views immediately clash with her friend's brother, who is pro-Nazi and the two argue passionately. A second brother proves to be her saving grace, as he shares her own political views. The two begin a heated affair, leaving Olin's character out in the proverbial cold. The two travel north to an Arctic port where they engage in a debate over whether Johanna should stay with him, out of harm's way, or continue to Paris to join the resistance movement.

“Essay, a term from written literature: unity of science and art; unity of social and individual knowledge,” Harun Farocki wrote in a first draft of the project Erzählen. The film follows two people (played by Engström and Farocki) investigating their respective subjects: one is tracing the involvement of the German heavy industry in the rise of Nazi-Germany, the other is interested in the fate of Larissa Reissner, a young Soviet writer and revolutionary. Both of them struggle with the question of how to organize their research and find a narrative structure. Their paths cross, and the film turns into an essayistic interrogation of structuralist narratology.

Celia, who calls herself Ginevra, is a movie actress who is appearing in an art-film. When she collapses from exhaustion while browsing in a bookstore and subsequently has a car crash, she decides to run away, throwing away her belongings and attempting to live incognito with a bar singer. Eventually she returns to her oh-so-boring life and shuttles between two additional lovers while working on the set of "Tears of an Angel." Some allusions are made to the Arthurian and Camelot myths, but these are not developed. Reviewers found the main attraction of this "art film" to be the numerous sex scenes between the star (played by Amanda Ooms) and her various lovers.