Winfred, a German living in the suburbs of piano teacher
. He likes to make jokes in disguise, always carries braces and wigs, and is alienated from his serious daughter Inesplayed. Ines is a senior in the Romanian branch of a large German company. She is a strong woman who is ambitious and dedicated to her work. She is strict with others and herself. She lives an unchanging life, and she can't tolerate any disruption to her perfectly planned career life.
In order to ease the relationship between himself and his daughter, Winfred, who was lonely after retiring, came uninvited and came to Bucharest to visit Ines. Ines had to accept this father who was contrary to her own style of doing things and might embarrass herself or embarrass herself at any time. Winfred, who broke into his daughter's different world, found that her daughter, who was always under high stress, could not be happy without humor. In order to help her daughter find the joy of life again, he invented a new identity for himself: Toni Erdmann, and thus staged a series of exaggerated and absurd performances. The arrival of Toni Erdmann changed Ines' busy work life, and the slowly changing father-daughter relationship made her realize that her father is so important in her life
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