Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music.
A mysterious concierge guides us through stories that unfold in the same room over a century. A Jewish businessman celebrates a lonely family festivity with his daughter. A planned suicide leads to a life-changing encounter. An ageing rock band struggles with their image, and a young woman sees a...
Due to a bureaucratic error, a five-person multicultural student flat share is classified as a family. In order to be able to keep their apartment and flat share in the social housing estate, the Lebanese Tarik (Rolf Sommer), the French Virginie (Julienne Pfeil), the Italian Enzo (Edward Piccin)...