Set during the sweltering summer of 1990 in a rural East German village right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this intense, atmospheric historical drama follows Maria, a delicate young woman who turns 19 during that transition. She lives on a family farm with her boyfriend, Johannes, drifting through a changing world by losing herself in literature. Her quiet, predictable life is permanently upended when she encounters Henner, a rugged, reclusive, and fiercely charismatic neighbor who lives alone on a neighboring farm. A single chance encounter ignites an immediate, consuming, and fiercely physical passion between them, drawing Maria into a secret, emotionally turbulent, and all-dominating extramarital relationship that threatens to tear her domestic life apart.