故事发生在1946年的德国，第二次世界大战刚刚结束，战火让大地满目疮痍，家庭妻离子散。英俊上校刘易斯（杰森·克拉克 Jason Clarke 饰）和他的妻子瑞秋（凯拉·奈特莉 Keira Knightley 饰）在战争中失去了他们的大儿子，瑞秋因此非常的痛恨德国人，但是让她没有想到的是，战后，她和她剩下的家人们，要和一个名为史蒂芬（亚历山大·斯卡斯加德 Alexander Skarsgård 饰）的男人住在同一屋檐下。 　　史蒂芬也在战争中失去了妻子，这让他对瑞秋没什么好脸色，两个人天天争锋相对。丧子之痛让刘易斯选择将大部分的时间和经历放在工作中，备受冷落的瑞秋每天的相处对象就只有史蒂芬，渐渐的，两人之间的关系开始转变。Set in postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.