 The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner s novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto: Genius writes its own rules. Against a background of kitsch global tourism - provided by the authentic Zermatt locations - Thomas Imbach s Lenz portrays an unconventional family and a man struggling between euphoria and desperation.