Margarethe, a German artist in her fifties, returns to her hometown Leipzig for a retrospective of her work. Rediscovering her paintings takes her back to her student days as an anti RDA protester in love with Heinrich, a mysterious young punk singer. Through the fog of repressed memories, the growing doubt - did she ever really know who he was ?

Paul and his big sister Céline squabble all the time. Just the normal life of a happy family, with its occasional upsets.
Suddenly, a momentary loss of control, a sharp smack, and everything becomes tense and dramatic. The daily harmony is muted leaving only heavy silence.
 

1890, Panama. Yellow fever infects workers who kill each other. Mosquitoes are a scourge. The adventure of the construction of the Panama Canal is a shipwreck... In the midst of this debacle, Abel, a young French engineer and his wife Josephine are expecting a child.