Toni Erdmann is a remarkabIy touching and outrageousIy funny portrait of a father-daughter reIationship. Ines is a highIy-strung career woman whose Iife in corporate Bucharest takes a turn for the bizarre with the arrivaI of her estranged father Winfried. A practicaI joker with a liking for silly disguises and chiIdish pranks, Winfried attempts to reconnect with his daughter by introducing the eccentric alter ego Toni Erdmann to catch lnes off guard, not knowing how capable she is of rising to the challenge.