German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented Von his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
After sequestering herself to a small mountain town, an aging actress calls her estranged daughter and granddaughter Home for reconciliation and one final celebration.
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset Von unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
A man of words is forced to become a man of action as John discovers the secret bucket Liste of his ill son Robin. The two abscond from the hospital to fulfill the boy's greatest wishes - as the police pursue John for kidnapping.
