Driven into isolation by alcohol and leeching friends, a bad job and a possessive girlfriend, a desperate artist is losing himself in the alluring illusion of a perfect love. An illusion though, that triggers dreams and desires that lay forever dormant. It is the illusion of a perfect love, free of judgment and expectation. But can his love survive? His past looms over his happiness like a dark cloud, soon to erupt.

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.