![Eva Mattes](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/9qUzPuHrQ2DV64CycNJMUFq4YvB.jpg)
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.