Wings of Desire is Wim Wenders's masterpiece and one of German cinema's most important international successes. Strongly lyrical monologues shape the poetic language that delves into human dilemmas such as existence, finitude, loneliness, and love. An angel rebels against his cold way of existing (which Wenders conveys in film through the use of black and white), moved by the effects of his love for a circus trapeze artist. The perpetual, solitary flight will be exchanged for something quite different: finite and in pairs. Human experience will traverse those who renounce being an eternal witness to other people's experiences in order to feel firsthand the pain and joy, the cold of loss or the warmth of a reciprocated caress, in the labyrinth of shared happiness.