The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. It was opened in 1968, shortly after his death. Nearly 50 years later, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period during which this unique edifice was constructed. She is the daughter of the architect Rolf Weisse, who used to work in the offices of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. In numerous interviews with her father Rolf Weisse, Mies van der Rohe's grandchild Dirk Lohan, the architect David Chipperfield – who is commissioned with renovating the building – and others, Ina Weisse explores the question of how the Neue Nationalgalerie came into existence, and what sort of world view is brought to expression by Mies van der Rohe's building.

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The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. Nearly 50 years after the opening, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period of its construction and explores the question of how the Neue Nationalgalerie came into existence, and what sort of world view is brought to expression by Mies van der Rohe's building.