故事发生在德国当代，简（丹尼尔·布鲁赫 Daniel Brühl 饰），皮特（斯坦奇·艾塞克 Stipe Erceg 饰）和朱莉（朱丽娅·耶恩奇 Julia Jentsch 饰）是三个社会上随处可见的普通青年。但在他们的内心里，愤怒和失望的火焰从未停止过燃烧，对于国家的现状，对于政府的不满，对于富人的仇恨，为了给这些汹涌的感情找到出口，他们必须要做一些与众不同的事情。　　他们在夜里潜入豪宅之中，在大肆恶作剧一番后留下写有“好日子到头了”的恐吓纸条，这样一种行动让三位好友在情感上得到了发泄，也在精神上获得了快感。一次行动中，朱莉造成的意外导致他们不得不重返“犯罪现场”，不幸的是，他们刚好撞见了归家的房主，情势所迫，三人做了一件他们都不愿意做的事情——绑架。

　　Not so long ago, Martin was a gifted mathematician with a career and a steady girlfriend. But after a spell in psychiatric care, he is released with no job and no way of supporting himself, labelled as mentally ill. Viktor is a young Ukrainian boy recently orphaned following his mother's OD. When the two meet, Martin takes Victor under his wing, and fleeing the city, they escape to a forest where they manage to build a hut robust enough to live in. Though not easy, their back-to-nature subsistence life is idyllic by comparison to what they have left behind, and the pair become firm friends. Martin even meets a sympathetic young woman, Lena, who he encourages to live in a more idealistic way. But just as Martin has started to find happiness, harsh reality intervenesÖ Director Hans Weingartner is best known here for his second film, The Edukators, but his new film is closer to his debut feature, The White Noise (LFF 2000). In common with that film, Hut in the Woods takes a progressive view of mental illness, creating believable and likeable characters and telling their story with empathy and an enviable lightness of touch.　　Sandra Hebron　　London Film Festival