In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.

Sandra Hüller
as Erika Mann

Hanns Zischler
as Thomas Mann

August Diehl
as Klaus Mann

Anna Madeley
as Betty Knox

Devid Striesow
as Johannes R. Becher

David Menkin
as Arthur Quint

Joachim Meyerhoff
as Gustaf Gründgens

Enno Trebs
as Wieland Wagner

Theo Trebs
as Wolfgang Wagner

Waldemar Kobus
as Mayor of Frankfurt