Writing
The film shows the times directly before and after the revolution of 1956 in a Rosehill villa and its garden, guarded by the state security, from the perspective of a powerful party functionary’s children living there. The children witness a lot of things they do not understand, mysterious things, which they interpret in their own way.
Conny and Sigi lives in a villa in Berlin's Westend. Cony has fear of the future and want to do something meaningful. She suggests they adopt a poor Roma child from Eastern Europe.
A fictional "film diary" recounts the hunt for the "Blinde Kuh" (Blind Cow), a lost experimental setup by the Nazi "Fernseh-Gruppe" (Television Group), whose television technology was in the testing phase during World War II.