The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism.