The year is 2005. The location: Graefenhainichen. It is a small town in East Germany, close to Wittenberg where Martin Luther lived and taught 500 years ago. A street in Graefenhainichen: Poetenweg - Poet's Lane. A block of flats that contains 85 identical one-room apartments. Four tenants open their doors to the filmmakers: Two women and two men. Four generations; four different states of loss and loneliness. Outside, a graffito is scrawled onto the hallway wall: THE BLOCK. People here say this house is alive. THE BLOCK, a movie about four human beings, their lives and how life leaves them.