Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) is given what most of us would love to have — a second chance. Having survived life in a concentration camp as well as a bullet wound to her face, she’s undergone facial reconstructive surgery, and though she insists that she wants to look just as she did before the war, the surgeons can only do so much. She looks somewhat like her old self, but little touches here and there are just … a … bit … off.
Ignoring her friend Lene’s (Nina Kuzendorf) advice, Nelly sets out to find her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), as the thought of being reunited with him was all that kept her going in the camps. Though things in postwar Berlin are in horrible disarray, she manages to track him down. However, the magical reunion she imagined isn’t to be when Johnny fails to recognize his wife, a devastating turn for Nelly but one she ultimately uses to her advantage when she uncovers a secret of Johnny’s and he finds himself attracted to her.
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