Conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) has everything: awards, an incredible apartment, a supportive partner, a beautiful daughter but now she faces the challenge of life with a live recording Gustav Mahler’s monumental Fifth symphony. As her focus shifts from infatuations old and new, her life begins starts to crumble . . .

A year before the Great War reaches its conclusion, German teenager Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) joins into the army. Several months later, this world is shattered when the reality of trench warfare sinks in, and all you do is just survive.