Lawyer Maria “Mai” Gardner moves from Berlin to Vogtland for a mandate. There are pretty villages, spruce forests, and even skiing is possible. People are proud and stubborn, for better or worse. In the local community people like to sort things out among themselves.
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 1871 on the floors of Versailles castle, ancestral seat of the French monarchy.