What do ticket inspectors dream about? What happens when two men find out they loved the same woman? What does the boy who catches the maid with her lover experience? What do the two boys discover who want an autograph from a star? Which story unfolds when two longing glances miss each other by a hair's breadth during a concert? What happened to the woman who undressed in a photo studio in 1933? And what does the eclipse have to do with all this?
This is the fictional portrait of a city or the portrait of a fictional city, the city that everyone dreams of and the dream that every city represents. The biography of each individual is entangled in the history of a city and the many individual stories of a city result in something like a biography of this city. The film goes through the city like a cut, so that the age rings become visible like a tree. However, it is not the historical growth or the geographical expansion of the city that is meant, but the inner growth of the cityscape, which in the course of a lifetime always allows new views. These age rings represent, so to speak, the inner city that everyone carries within themselves: how certain districts, streets, buildings gain or lose significance, hide or reveal secrets, as they appear or disappear before the spiritual eye.
