Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.
Summary written by Cinemator。山姆(查德•多纳拉 Chad Donella 饰)是一名拥有着强烈艺术气息的艺术系学生,一次偶然之中,他邂逅了名为霍普(詹妮弗•莫里森 Jennifer Morrison 饰)的美丽女子。聪明而又活泼的霍普很快就吸引了山姆的注意,令他坠入情网无法自拔。虽然山姆幸运的要到了霍普的电话号码,但不久之后,这位女孩还是消失在了人海之中。 当山姆再次联系上霍普时,得到的竟然是她患上了抑郁症的消息。深深爱着霍普的山姆决定通过自己的支持和陪伴,帮助霍普走出抑郁,重新拥抱生活。在此过程中,山姆和霍普的心逐渐靠近,在两人携手对抗抑郁的道路上,他们亦面临着巨大的挑战。。