A middle-aged woman who lives alone in her childhood home has become such a daydreamer that the line between fantasy and reality has become blurred. Her thoughts revolve around the war years, when her father was a Nazi and she married the wrong man, even though a sympathetic German soldier loved her. When a young man comes to read the electricity meter, she cannot distinguish between past and present, and the clash between dream and reality becomes painful.

A female police detective, TESS, discovers a mutilated body in a crime scene. Her search for the killer leads her to the young and innocent-looking MARKUS. Immediately attracted to Markus, her attraction to him leads her deep into a dreamy and grotesque world where her relationship to Markus is changed upside down - and inside out.