在文明與野蠻對峙的時代,與特倫特主教爭戰多年的將軍,遠赴葡萄牙娶妻生子後,急不及待重返戰場。妻子靜守孤堡十一年,歸來是身心俱殘的丈夫,在漫天流言中,死亡在床榻悄然等候?導演高美斯以恍如彼得布勒哲爾的古典畫風,繪出羅拔穆齊爾同名故事的沉澱哲思,於群山縈繞的迷霧裏,窺看人沉湎於戰爭懷抱,與靈魂、與愛情漸行漸遠。法斯賓達前妻英格烈卡文以顫音低吟中古詩歌《菩提樹下》,道是愛比死更冷?His home is war. Her home is Portugal. Yet the young, newly married wife of Lord von Ketten is determined to make her husband's family abode, an inhospitable castle on a cliff in northern Italy, into her home.