深陷在婚姻的绝望中,Helene Brindel感觉已被上帝所遗弃。伸出手,她触到了那个解救之人,著名的心理学家Eduard E. Gluck,但魅力四射的Gluck必须打败自己心中的恶魔。当他们相知相拥,才发现截然不同的两人已经难以抗拒彼此。迟疑地,他们走近彼此,敞开心扉,发现爱却成为了一场考试,一个承诺。Having lost her faith in God, Helene is gradually drowning into a world of severe desperation, mundane repetitiveness and absolute emotional numbness, elaborately concealed beneath an orderly and conventional, almost conservative, facade. Eventually, Helene profoundly shaken by her spiritual crisis, she will choose to resign from life and during those relentlessly unbearable sleepless nights, she will use her insomnia to attend her indifferent, self-absorbed, faithless husband, preparing his breakfast and packed lunch. Nevertheless, while in despair and in search of help, Helene will gather up her remaining courage and decide to lie in order to travel to Hamburg and meet with the esteemed psychologist and writer Eduard Gluck, the soothing and reassuring voice she heard on the radio. Could he be her saviour, or has he, a mere mortal, too lost his faith? As their clumsy and platonic relationship timidly unfolds, Helene will hesitantly engage in an uneasy inquiry into the correlation of ...