Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlig...。年轻男子雅各布相信自己是一只困在人体内的狼,吃住行都像狼一样,这是一种被称为“物种焦虑症”的现实状况,他被送到一家诊所接受治疗,遇到了其他有同样情况的病人,他们被迫在冷酷无情的医生“动物园管理员”的手中接受极端治疗。当雅各布遇到神秘的“野猫”后,两人的友谊发展成了不可否认的迷恋,雅各布面临一个难题:他是否愿意为了爱情放弃真我?。