Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlig...。爱瑟和杰马尔是一对苦于不孕的年轻夫妻,经人介绍后杰马尔决定抱回一个小孩当做自己的亲生儿。面对生活中凭空出现的婴儿,爱瑟感到莫大的压力,两人因此发生争执,而后杰马尔竟不告而別,爱瑟顿时成了单亲妈妈,这对无血缘关系的母子该何去何从呢?。