A young woman is found unconscious in a city street - claims to be another person who was brutally murdered two months earlier - escapes from a psychiatric hospital in order to prove her identity and find the truth about her life, her death, and her murderer.

Brilliant playwright, Lisa, no longer writes. She lives in Switzerland with her family but her heart has stayed in Berlin, beating to the rhythm of her brother's heart. The ties between the twins have grown stronger since Sven was diagnosed with an aggressive type of leukemia. He's a famous theater actor and Lisa refuses to accept his fate, moving heaven and earth to get him back on stage. She gives her all for her soul mate, neglecting everything else, even risking her marriage. Her relationship with her husband starts to fall apart, but Lisa only has eyes for her brother, her mirror, who connects her back with her deepest aspirations and rekindles her desire to create, to feel alive...

在南美洲人迹少至的热带雨林深处，经过六年的努力，生化学家罗勃肯贝尔博士，研发出一种癌症治疗法面临一项重大的医学突破。一位冷静的女性学者当可琳博士历经一段艰困的会面；这一对互相厌恶的伙伴终于产生了共同的尊重，而实际的爱苗也滋生于这片异国风情的热带雨林中……

甫成年的朱利歐告別鄉村來到里斯本討生活，無奈工作難尋，只能認份地跟著叔叔學做鞋匠。與年輕而命運相仿的管家伊爾達相戀後，對生存與生活的殘酷命題有了更深刻的體悟……葡萄牙新電影先驅，對當時經濟與社會提出最真摯也最具挑戰性的大膽詰問，有評論認為由此開端的電影浪潮，間接引發了終結獨裁的康乃馨革命。