When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.

Vicky Krieps
as Ingeborg Bachmann

Ronald Zehrfeld
as Max Frisch

Tobias Resch
as Adolf Opel

Basil Eidenbenz
as Hans Werner Henze

Luna Wedler
as Marianne Oellers

Marc Limpach
as Tankred Dorst

Ricardo Angelini
as Ober

Bernhard Marsch
as Self

Nickel Bösenberg
as Journalist

Bettina Scheuritzel
as Visitor