Management consultant Max Tanner is an airman as he stands in the book. This painful experience must make his new friend Anna, as she caught him just on her birthday with another. In her anger, Anna cursed him with the words "From now on you are air!" And indeed, from that moment Max is invisible...
In the early 1930s, ten-year-old Alexander is determined to win his school's painting competition to impress his secret love, Lotte. By chance, he comes into possession of the glittering mother-of-pearl paint. However, its disappearance triggers a fierce battle between the A class and the B class.
Sofie Gruber, trapped in a loveless marriage on a remote Bavarian farm, discovers her husband dead one morning, apparently by suicide. As rumors swirl that she had a hand in his death, Sofie must confront isolation, suspicion, and the harsh realities of her life.
