Commemorating Richard Strauss’ 150th Birthday, the film focuses on the family of the composer. Especially for this documentary, the family archive of the Strauss-family is opened to the public by Richard Strauss’ grand-son Christian and his sister in law (and today’s archival director) Gabriele Strauss-Hotter. It allows the viewer to get an intense, nearly intimate view on the extraordinary life of this exceptional artist. The film by Bar­bara Wun­der­lich and Mar­ieke Schroeder sketches the per­son­al­ity of Strauss by em­phas­is on the Strauss Villa in Garmisch, his fo­cal point of life, and the sym­phon­ic com­pos­i­tion “Sym­phonia Do­mest­ica”, which por­trays the artist’s con­tra­dict­ive per­sona and his body of work bet­ter than any oth­er piece of him.