《隐墙》影片的主人公是一位并没有给出姓名的女人(马蒂娜·戈黛特《他人的生活》饰演)。她和两位朋友以及她们养的狗一起来到阿尔卑斯山脚下度假。安顿下之后，朋友提议出去散步，而她因为驾车的疲倦决定赶早睡下。第二天早上醒来之后，她发现朋友们整夜未归，而只有小狗卢齐思陪在她身边。担心的她想到旁边的村子打听消息，却发现她被一道看不见的屏障封闭了在这里，根本无法离开。电台中断，电话失去了信号，她必须做出决定，...

歌德（亚历山大·斐林 饰）出生在一个家教甚严的家庭之中，父亲一直希望儿子能够研习法律走上权衡公平与正义的道路，歌德选择听从父亲的话，进入法学院深造。然而，歌德内心的文学之魂一直都在蠢蠢欲动，在学习法律期间，他将大部分的事件都放在了文学创作之上，成绩自然一落千丈，并且最终被学校除名，这让父亲赶到十分生气，为了惩罚儿子的过失，父亲斩断了歌德的经济来源。如此一来，歌德必须依靠自己的双手劳作才能够吃上饭了，他来到了韦茨拉尔法院，成为了那里的一名书记员。一场集会上，歌德邂逅了名为夏洛特（米莉安·斯坦恩 饰）的女子，坠入了情网，然而，夏洛特已经是别人的未婚妻了。

War and Peace: At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a film collage about war? "Nothing is more discouraging than not being able to see through a game on which your life hinges." Alexander Kluge about War and Peace: There are experiences which move the senses and the heart but which, once robbed of their historical context, are very hard to convey in film in such a way that they remain topical and hold the interest of the audience. One such experience is the missile crisis of 1981-1984. For our part we had made a considerable effort to film it. Why? Even at the time the majority of the audience didn't ask us to. pDuring those years I felt physically afraid. To be honest, I didn't believe Germany was going to be bombarded with neutron bombs or in the total destruction of the Fulda basin, i.e. the zone in the middle of Germany into which the missiles of both sides would fall in the event of a Third World War. Inside me I had a defence mechanism against the thought that a Third World War could be the result of the mistakes made