Colours in the Dark

Anita (Senta Berger) and Fred (Bruno Ganz) have been together for some 50 years and are happily married for just as long. They have two grown-up children, their granddaughter is just about to finish school. Both cannot only look back on a fulfilled live – they are still in the middle of it. Up to now they have not told their family that Fred is gravely ill. For the first time in all those years, Fred allows himself to do things that affront his wife. For the first time Anita feels left alone and calls their relationship into queistion. But a love like theirs doe not end like that. In fact, it should never end…