In the newest film from director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Transit), Laura, a young piano student from Berlin (played by regular Petzold collaborator Paula Beer), miraculously survives a shocking car crash during a weekend trip to the countryside. Awakening in a nearby house, Laura finds herself in the care of a local woman, who tends to her with motherly devotion. As she recuperates and begins to integrate herself into the lives of the woman and her initially reluctant husband and son, Laura and her adopted family come to find a strange harmony together. However, they cannot outrun the ghosts of the past, which begin to stir as Petzold spins a modern gothic fairytale about the lies we tell ourselves and the strange ways that grief, connection, and humanity bind and sustain us.