Once married to each other, Lucas and Edith have been estranged for ten years, ever since Lucas left. At Edith’s request, they meet at the cemetery where their only child is buried. During a long wait, their conversation progresses, revisiting their shared past and raising new prospects for their future.
Alma is a scientist at Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence designed to allow it to morph into that of her ideal life partner. Enter Tom, a machine in human form, created to make her happy.
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three.