Communist East Berlin, early 1980s: LUDGER is hired by the Stasi to infiltrate a subversive countercultural movement in the district of Prenzlauer Berg. After falling in love with the mysterious NATHALIE and sleeping with his first target, CORINNA, Ludger ends up living two lives – one as an underground poet and one as a Stasi agent – both of which eventually come back to haunt him 30 years later.

　　斯蒂芬(克里斯托弗·玛利亚·赫布斯特饰)和他的妻子伊丽莎白(卡罗琳·彼得斯饰)在波恩的家中组织了一场晚宴。受邀的有他们的朋友勒内，伊丽莎白的弟弟托马斯和他怀孕的女友安娜 。托马斯宣布想给孩子取名为「阿道夫」，原本一个温馨而美好的夜晚聚会就此失控，一场闹剧即将上演。

　　A man foils an attempted murder, then flees the crew of would-be killers along with their intended target as a woman he's just met tries to find him.

　　Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the role of women in society in his carnival club. When he meets psychologist Margarete Tietze, "Pussi" finally begins to rebel against his dominant mother.

　　名不见经传的钢琴家安迪（马提亚斯·施维赫夫 Matthias Schweighöfer 饰）和从未干过什么正经事整天游手好闲的本诺（弗洛里安·大卫·菲茨 Florian David Fitz 饰），这两个个性迥异似乎永远都不会有交集的人，相识于病房之中，两人都患上了无法治愈的绝症，时日无多。
　　在本诺的怂恿之下，安迪决定和他一起逃出病房，来一趟充满了阳光和激情的非洲之旅，他们要尽情享受轰轰烈烈毫无顾忌的人生，才能甘心接收死亡的终结。就这样，两个“亡命之徒”踏上了他们的旅途，一路上，疯狂的两人制造了数不清的麻烦和笑料，而他们糟糕的健康状况，亦令两人屡屡同死神擦肩而过。最终，当他们抵达了目的地时，又会有怎样的一番景象在等待着两人呢？

　　宁静的小镇突然接连发生了离奇的死亡事件，一个四口之家的成员接连丧命。呆瓜警察埃伯霍夫觉察了到了别人没发现的蹊跷之处……

　　Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Schönberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Schönberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Schönberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Schönberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.