Swing era Germany. A young Leni Riefenstahl is acclaimed as the greatest female filmmaker of the 20th century. Dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director, she is renowned as a consummate artist. Then come the atrocities of the Third Reich and suddenly she is dismissed and despised as a Nazi whore. "Tiefland" is a fictionalized account of her struggle to restore her reputation and her desperate attempt to regain the adoration she once enjoyed.