近未来，神秘症状在人群间扩散，恐惧在空气中曼延。原因不明，只知感染者初期会产生骨骼变异，身体长出毛皮或鳞片，原有人类特质将逐步退化。政府束手无策，只能强制收管已兽化的感染者。方苏瓦深信挚爱的妻子还在那张突变的面孔底下，无论她被转到多远的收容所，他都带着青春期的儿子艾米搬迁跟随。尝试融入新班级的艾米，却意外发现身体也出现了难以启齿的变化??

Halberstadt, the summer of 1990: Maren, Robert, and Volker come across millions of East German marks in an old tunnel. Although the money is technically worthless, the three friends smuggle it out in their backpacks and involve their neighbors in a clever scheme to cheat capitalism by exchanging it for goods.