Wolfgang is an actor in Los Angeles. He has been trying for thirty years to connect with his father, Walter, who left his mother after a brief affair - not knowing she was pregnant with Wolfgang - to pursue his career as an actor in Germany. Now Wolfgang has been cast in a Hollywood film and uses his position to get Walter a part playing his father in the film about a family reunion.

The film takes us back in time, to a relatively recent yet forgotten period in history, when many women like Lina were forced to fold in the face of unfair and blinkered authorities. The victim of an administrative internment aimed at re-educating her after her so-called "depraved behaviour", Lina finds herself completely abandoned, confused and humiliated. In present day, when she is 60 years old, for the first time in her life, our brave protagonist can finally "spill the beans", thus freeing herself of a burden that has threatened to destroy her all these years.