For Momo, the dream of a football career was within reach. But then his family blames him for a crime. Innocently, the 19-year-old ends up in jail and is expected to serve a 19-year sentence there. Momo now has to assert himself in everyday prison life. His mother and girlfriend visit him regularly and he finds support in the prison football team. But his prison life takes a dramatic turn. His uncle Amar, who is also a feared clan chief, is blackmailing him. In order to get protection in prison, he is supposed to start dealing drugs.
In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone
BUT NOT FOR ME IS A FILM ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR FULFILLMENT THROUGH ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, THE LINES WE DRAW AS WE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE OURSELVES, AND THE UNDERLYING TRUTHS THAT ULTIMATELY CONNECT US. 关于自我、人生、艺术、以及爱情。