夏洛特和保罗是一对共同生活了37年的夫妻。保罗退休后,夏洛特感觉两人的感情已消耗殆尽,她陷入了迷茫与痛苦之中。因为心爱的猫意外去世,他们古灵精怪的外孙女尤也整日郁郁寡欢。在尤的生日宴会上,夏洛特提议全家去一个小岛上旅行散心。此举遭到了丈夫保罗和女儿亚历克斯的强烈反对。但是夏洛特和尤不顾反对,带着猫的尸体偷偷驱车前往小岛。这个家庭所有的这一切都被“上帝”看在眼里。在岛上的旅店,夏洛特和尤遇到了身份为旅馆主人的“上帝”。此时为寻找祖孙二人,保罗与亚历克斯父女经过了一路“艰险”也来到了此地……
本片德语原名直译为“究竟是谁发明了爱情?”,这是导演克斯廷·波尔特执导的首部剧情长片。影片加入了“上帝”这一超现实的角色,以喜剧的方式,从神与人的不同角度探讨了人生、家庭、爱情的本质意义。影片获得德国巴伐利亚电影节最佳青年导演奖。
CLOUD WHISPERS (WT) tells the tragicomic story of 60-year old Charlotte, who leaves her old life behind at a motorway pull-in in order to embark on a road trip with her granddaughter Jo and a dead cat. Her husband Paul and her daughter Alex are left puzzled and somewhat shocked. Charlotte and Jo's first impulse just to run away develops more and more into a self-determined new beginning. Far away from home and out of old patterns, they dive deep into the here and now, facing their fears and welcoming the surprises which only life and love can offer. But Paul catches up to Charlotte. Yet he has first to learn how to dream again or he will never get her back. Whereas Alex will fall deeply in love with someone she would have never expected. And Jo realizes that there is more between heaven and earth, than she will ever get out of her scientific book collection...