Erna Brünell

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

They live in junk, talk nonsense, and paint a new picture of the world. Then Johanna comes along and turns everything upside down again. Almost like in a real movie, doom, love, and death loom large.