1995年，由马特•巴恩斯中尉（沙利文·斯特普尔顿 Sullivan Stapleton 饰）领衔的海豹突击队五人小队前往萨拉热窝进行一次对当地军阀头目进行绑架的英美联合行动。任务顺利完成后，小队队员之一的斯坦顿•贝克（查理·比尤利 Charlie Bewley 饰）在机缘巧合之下从女友劳拉（西尔维娅·侯克斯 Sylvia Hoeks 饰）口中得知了在当地的一处大湖的湖底沉淀着27吨纳粹遗留的黄金。劳拉希望得到黄金，用一半来救助自己的国家，另一半当作小队的酬劳。马特欣然接受了这个提议，但正当他们即将开始行动之时，满腔怒火的军阀头目副手彼得罗维奇(克雷蒙斯·施伊克 Clemens Schick 饰）也正酝酿着自己的复仇计划......

　　Tania is an actress, 43. Thore is 15, a misfit in a small village at the northern tip of Germany. At the beginning of winter, Tania escapes from her numb life to the village. They meet. She decides to steal him from his parents.
　　The actress Tania travels from Munich to a village in the north of Germany. The skies are grey, just like the sea and the wintery plains. Her feelings are also covered in a grey veil of mist. Her painful past makes it impossible for this forty-something to feel anything at all.
　　The arrival of the stranger is immediately noticed in the tight-lipped community, but she is hardly welcome. Only the teenager Thore, whose imagination is too much for this no-man’s-land, has contact with her. A fragile band develops between them - attraction, rejection and occasionally sexually charged. Thore reveals a need in Tania, one she didn’t know she had. She decides to ‘steal’ Thore to come to terms with her own loss.
　　Rough is a directing debut filmed with great poise and with a sharp eye for this beautiful yet slightly depressing landscape and the people who inhabit it. The camera first functions as a detached observer, then as an accomplice, always very close to Tania.