The teenagers Simon and Lydia were housemates in Copenhagen. The boys in the yard were screaming that Lydia had a whore mother; Lydia teased and bullied them, and she was beaten, and she fought back, and once Simon, unable to stand it, rushed at the offenders, and everything disappeared, there was only pain, and screaming, and blood. Then she and Lydia hid in a coal pit and sat for a long time, and when everything was quiet, she brought him to the attic ... And after that they lay closely clinging to each other, and both understood that what had happened would remain with them forever and no one could change that.

Many years pass, and in the last year of the war, Simon accidentally meets Lydia. Despite the fact that Lydia does not know where expensive cigarettes and silk outfits come from, despite her drunken smile, Simon desperately wants to believe her words about love and that she is safe, although the Gestapo is looking for him and care must be taken. But, apparently, Lydia still betrayed him, because on the third night the Nazis came to her apartment. Simon manages to leave on the roofs, but stumbles upon a car with policemen who, as befits a curfew, open fire on a fleeing man. Simon is wounded in the arm, but, not stopping, runs, runs in the rain and wind, escapes from some dogs, climbs over some fences ... His consciousness is muddied ... Suddenly he discovers that he is sitting in front of a fashionable mansion, from the windows of which music pours. "Farther!" He says to himself ...

Get up, Thomas tells himself. “Get up and leave your house, which is not your home, away from your married life, which is no married life ...” But, as always, he remains to sit and drink, drink, and then hallucinations begin again, and again he recalls mother. She tormented Thomas with her love; he could no longer hear confidential stories about her lovers every night. He locked himself in the room, got drunk, and she pounded on his door and screamed that she would kill herself. And once really swallowed sleeping pills. She could be saved simply by calling a doctor, but Thomas did nothing. And now the ghostly analytic demons are talking to him about his guilt, and everything around is spinning, and lapses in consciousness appear ...

Simon is very tired. Lydia betrayed him. He will kill her, and then himself. But first, comrades must be warned. Have to ask for help from strangers. Simon gets to the window of the mansion, sees dancing couples in it, and in the corner he sees a drunken man who is approached by a woman similar to Lydia and her gentleman.

Gabriel and Daphne come to Thomas. His father-in-law and his wife, father and daughter; and it seems to Thomas that the relationship between them is not entirely innocent ... Here in their place is Dr. Felix, a friend of the house. Daphne recently something often uses medical terms. But to him, Thomas, she doesn’t open the door when he knocks on her bedroom. But he still comes. He is not able to break this hell of unreality even with a shot at his temple, although the pistol has been prepared for a long time ... I want to hit Felix, but instead Thomas starts talking and drowns out the doctor with words until he leaves ... And Thomas already has a woman sitting on her lap. named Sonya. She talks about how Daphne and Felix humiliate her, how afraid she is of Gabriel; Sonya confesses her love to Thomas, begs her to save ... Daphne comes, takes her away, but Thomas does nothing. Gabriel sits down to him ...

Two Germans from the guard duty are approaching the mansion. Simon hid in the backyard. The main thing is not to be alive. It's cold, I want to sleep, my hand hurts ...

Gabriel, a successful collaborator, quickly settles the case with the Germans about the wrong blackout and continues the conversation with Thomas.

A girl who left the house with a bin comes across Simon. He asks her to call someone from adults who can be trusted. She leaves...

Carried away, Gabriel sets out to Thomas his beliefs: the future lies with capital, which will create a new form of dictatorship. Let people believe that they are fighting for freedom - do not take away their beautiful slogans, you just need to use them for your own purposes. In fact, a person needs not freedom, but fear. Things, money and fear.

Simon, fearing that the girl would cry and fill up the matter, convinces herself to remain calm and common sense, nevertheless, for some reason, she’s coming ... she enters the mansion’s kitchen, ..

Nevertheless, Gabriel is not sure of himself, he is unhappy, lonely and afraid of his loneliness. Suddenly, a heart attack strikes him, and in the last minutes only Thomas remains with him, having emerged from a state of immobility. He hears how Gabriel makes that silent cry that is heard behind the words of each person, and understands that this cry is meaningless, because a gentle touch is enough to appease him. And he understands that the moment has come when he will get up and leave. And then there is a cry ...

One of the maids in the kitchen, seeing a dirty stranger with a gun, screams loudly, and Simon shoots at the ceiling in surprise ...

Thomas enters the kitchen, walks up to Simon. “Hello brother,” says Thomas.

Gabriel is taken to the hospital. Everyone is so busy with this event that no one paid attention to the shot, and Thomas can quietly bring his “brother” to himself. He bandages Simon's hand, gives him food, changes his clothes from the dirty clothes of a worker into his own expensive suit, noting in passing that they are the same size, and indeed they look like twins. Then Thomas takes Simon to the city, thanks to Gabriel's Ausweis, bypassing German posts. He was tired, but never in his life had he been so happy.

Simon is not completely sure if Thomas can be trusted. And yet, when it comes time to part, he breaks out: "You are better than senseless death ... you must be with us." He refuses, but when Simon leaves, he becomes so lonely ... so empty ... as if in oblivion, he carefully follows the "brother" ... comes through the door of the tavern, goes up the stairs ... Then they beat him on the head, and he faints.

For Kuznets, the leader of a group of underground workers, it was a complete surprise that Simon vouched for the unknown man who came (probably a scammer), whom he himself did not really know. Nevertheless, for now, he just locks Thomas in the attic. Kuznets has so many problems: it is necessary to transport to Sweden a group of people persecuted by the Germans who are now hiding in a tavern; they couldn’t be sent yesterday, and there were no new instructions ... But even he has less trouble than Magdalena, the owner of the tavern — she needs to wash the dishes, cook food for visitors, feed the underground and still take care of her stepfather, who had fallen into childhood. . And so long, so long ago she had no man ...

It's cold in the attic. The morning bells ring. Now Thomas is really drunk, he is on the verge of madness ... A vision? No, this is his brother ... “We have to leave, Thomas. It's about your life. " Of course, he raves, but he must obey his brother ... The body does not obey him, he cannot go ... Simon tries to carry him in his arms, but nothing happens, he is wounded and tired ...

When Thomas regains consciousness, a woman nearby - big, maybe too big - is the exact opposite of Daphne. She leaves food and, leaving, does not lock the attic door - obviously on purpose so that he can leave - because they want to kill him as a scammer. But Thomas is not leaving ... although she, of course, will not return ... but ...

Magdalena runs back and forth, stopping for a moment to say something, answer, pick up and give; I still have to redo a bunch of things, and there’s some kind of heaviness in my whole body ... But finally evening comes, and she goes to the attic again ...

Thomas suddenly sees Magdalena next to him, touches her shoulders, hair, chest ...

Then they lie, intertwined with bodies, and everyone has a feeling, as if this is the first time. Thomas talks about his mother, and Magdalena - that her stepfather was a pimp and used her, half-child, despite resistance and tears. “And you look after him?” - Thomas is surprised. “I must - for my own sake,” she answers. “This is the only way to overcome.” And then she falls asleep in his arms.

Stepdad Magdalena, left unattended, finds the keys, sneaks into the tavern hall, lights the light everywhere, drinks and talks to himself. Two - disguised policemen - break open the door and, having deceived the crazy old man, force him to show where refugees are hiding.

Appearing with Magdalena in the doorway of the room where the group ready to be sent is hiding, Thomas sees a giant who has already managed to put everyone to the wall. Thomas is not armed, but he throws himself at the stranger and takes his gun. But he managed to shoot - Magdalena was killed.

A blacksmith quickly takes refugees up the other stairs. Thomas remains to cover the retreat. Simon also joins him. In a shootout, Simon is injured. “Only not alive ...” he says, and Thomas, realizing, is killing him. And then comes Thomas's turn. At the very last moment, when his body is already pierced with a dozen bullets, he manages to think that the tower bells are about to begin to play their melody - “The light of life forever shines” ...