A young couple helplessly in love spend their last night together at a park before they begin college at different schools.

A boy and girl in the former region of Eastern Prussia spend their final evening together before the girl and her family leave for the city. Throughout the evening, the boy wrestles with his suppressed sexual desires, his poverty, and his dread for the girl's uncertain future.

A four-year-old black boy vaguely recalls a mixture of occurrences that puzzled him, including a sentenced hanging in his town of a man who allegedly murdered his wife.