Examining the lingering emotional paralysis crippling the family of a renowned
war photographer (Isabelle Huppert, seen in copious flashbacks) who committed suicide three years
earlier, Trier employs a fragmented, kaleidoscopic style, skipping blithely back and forth in time, and constantly shifting perspective among the fretting widower (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid).