Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. But falling in love anew, Undine reworks the myth of the mysterious water spirit as a modern fairy-tale in a disenchanted world.

Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man’s friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.