Jade是一个被硫酸烧伤的年轻妈妈——她的脸在完成了重建手术之后还是留下了难以消除的疤痕，经历了内心的崩溃和人际关系的破裂后，她采取了比较极端的方式试图挽回曾经正常的生活。

主人公是22岁的少女妮可，父母外出后独自照看房子，她和好朋友韦萝妮克享受着夏日惬意的时光。这种平静被妮可的哥哥打破了，他带着他的乐队出现了，他们正打算为专辑录歌。两个女孩的友谊受到了考验。她们的假日出现了意想不到的转折。妮可开始失眠，并且收到了来自一个只有十岁的男孩坚持不渝的追求。

When three Emirati soldiers are ambushed in a hostile territory, their commander leads a daring mission to rescue them.

安娜是一个离了婚的单身母亲，她请了年轻的小保姆丽兹照顾她的两个孩子，她不久就发现丽兹有吸毒的问题，而且后者和男人的关系也很随便。

The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.