خلاصه داستان : معلم آن و پلیس جورج به عنوان یک زوج عالی در نظر گرفته می شوند. با این حال، ظاهر فریبنده است: یکی از آنها با زخم و کبودی پوشیده شده است. اما کدام یک متجاوز است؟

Teacher Anne and policeman Georg are thought of as the perfect couple. However, appearances are deceptive: one of them is covered with scars and bruises. But which one is the abuser?

خلاصه داستان : روایتِ رفاقتِ زنانه‌ی اولگا و روت، اولی پیانیستِ حرفه‌ای و وفادار یه فمینیسم و دومی مبتلا به جنون ادواری.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.