故事发生在位于墨西哥北部的一个宗教社区之中,住在这里的人都是极为虔诚的信徒,一丝不苟的遵循着主的指引,一言一行均时刻谨记教义。约翰(Cornelio Wall 饰)和妻子艾斯特(Miriam Toews 饰)是此处的居民,两人结婚多年,一家人住在风景秀丽的郊外,日子过得平静而又幸福。
然而,一场风暴正在平静的表象之下激烈涌动,原来,约翰爱上了一位名叫玛丽安(玛丽亚·潘克拉兹 Maria Pankratz 饰)的女子,两人常常私会,享受灵与肉结合的快感。两人的关系并非仅仅局限于肉体,约翰深深的爱着玛丽安,这也就意味着,每当他和玛丽安在一起时,违背的不仅仅是世俗的道德,还有自己一生坚持的信仰,这令约翰陷入了巨大的痛苦之中。。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。