After a car accident, documentary directors and real life Berlin couple Marie-Catherine Theiler and Jan Peters conduct their own personal time experiment. How can we slow down and manage time?

The two filmmakers leave Berlin in a rental car for a holiday at the Hotel Belvedere near the Rhone glacier in the Swiss Alps. The car spins out of control and the two passengers experience a slowing down, an elongation of time.

Back in Berlin, they remain in the grip of this shift in time perception. Everything appears in a new light: hectic, busy lives without enough hours in the day, overlong “To Do” lists, never-ending appointments, the ever present mobile phone. When Marie-Catherine realizes she is pregnant, she and Jan use the coming nine months to make an experiment in which they are the subjects.

The film accompanies the couple as they attend time management workshops and learn to slow down. They interview time researchers, physicists and artists, and compare urban and rural life. The filmmakers unearth societal tendencies with humor and a sharp eye for self-irony.