Max Zorn is a writer touring with his new book. Nina is a rich lawyer in a multinational corporation. Seventeen years ago, they spent a single weekend together, but Max has never forgotten her. Their random encounter in New York will show whether one can go back in time. This unsentimental love story by the legendary director Volker Schlöndorff and writer Colm Tóibín loosely refers to a novel by Max Frisch.