Inga Birkenfeld

Katharina Heimsteadt, a young Bavarian, follows her husband to Tyrol. It is 1809, the year of the Tyrolean revolution against France and Bavaria's domination. On her arrival, she has to face the life in a farm in the Tyrolean Alps, experiencing the cruelty of the war of independence against French and Bavarian armies.

Niko, a melancholic man in the end of his 20s, tries to get on with his life and to get a cup of coffee in a black and white Berlin.

A mother goes away, leaving her husband and their two children in limbo. She is driven by a force she cannot ignore: freedom. (imdb)

When a woman comes to the aid of a group of refugees shipwrecked on the high seas, she is shown the limits of her importance and of the empathy of her cultural milieu.