When Ingeborg Bachmann and the Swiss writer Max Frisch met in Paris in 1958, it was the beginning of a passionate and destructive love story. But artistic clashes and Max Frisch's devouring jealousy begin to gradually destroy the harmony. Years later, Ingeborg Bachmann cannot let go of the memory of her love for him. On a trip to the desert, she tries to come to terms with her relationship with Max Frisch and slowly detach herself from it.