When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.
Mario, a young dancer living in a small village has to face the loss of his beloved best friend Lenz, victim of an attack in a gay club.
Anna wants to break away from her past and family background. A new social environment and a second educational path are supposed to help her achieve this. However, her ambitious pursuit of a middle-class ideal is relentlessly torpedoed by the appearance of her brother in distress.
