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。On the day of a local coming-of-age ceremony, a generation of teenagers stumble into the void of suburban idealism.。微风吹进朴旧的书房,父母共同写作的画面历历在目,朱家三姊妹翻出相簿及笔记,以子女的亲密眼光,看见小说家朱西宁与翻译家刘慕沙。 来台的日记,泛黄老旧的合影,日常点滴刻划出不为外人所知的台湾文学私史。一本本经典作品,挖掘出深层的回忆,〈铁浆〉的稿费买了冰箱 ,〈八二三注〉成为了家用的计算纸,而未完成的遗世之作〈华太平家传〉,则成了朱家未竟的最大愿望。 天文首次执导,以影像撰写两个台湾文坛代表的生命历程。走访台湾旧居,远赴中国探亲,丰富的家庭史料及私密的亲友交谈,言语间文坛巨擘俯拾拾即是。在身为作家及女儿的双重认同中,让文学的传承跨越三代,累加加上文学朱家的时代叠影。。