It's winter. A snowy little town in the mountains. Two couples caught between exhaustion and departure in a small villa whose fate crosses with that of a mountain farmer in a mysterious accident. Anything can happen in this wintry limbo: love, sex, death. In the end nothing will ever be the same...
Tom Tykwer has made a film about landscapes and emotions that plays virtuously with the genres: Thriller, melodrama and love story.