A five-year old girl tries to understand the meaning of death. When a bird flies against a window and dies, the girl starts to deal with the terminal illness of her mother.

Gräfenhausen near Pforzheim, on the morning of April 29, 1997: Harry Wörz is awaited by a large police force as he leaves his apartment and is immediately arrested. He is said to have visited the policewoman Silke, with whom he is still married but no longer lives together, the night before and choked her so hard with a scarf that she suffered serious injuries.

A family has a car accident, and now the young daughter is faced with being separated from her parents.