The Impossible Picture portrays the everyday life of a Viennese family in the 1950s, documented by 13-year-old Johanna: a childhood captured on 8mm film (or perhaps, a childhood as it might have been).
Fragments of family history and family secrets: an apartment regularly visited by women, more than men, revolving around grandmother Maria who holds weekly cooking clubs in her kitchen. But somehow, the women never actually seem to do any cooking...