The artist Hanne (Dagmar Manzel) and the retired pastor Bernd (August Zirner) lead a happy marriage that, after many years, has settled into a comfortable routine, when Hanne’s former husband Kurt (Harald Krassnitzer) suddenly appears at their door out of nowhere. Due to his dementia, Kurt can no longer remember that he and Hanne have been divorced for 20 years. When the couple takes him in temporarily, a lightness long thought lost returns to their marriage. But as time goes by, their shared life begins to unravel more and more.