Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.

For the stockbroker Marie-Eve, the day starts with buying and selling shares while brushing your teeth. Hectically, she races through life or past life. Between all the calls, she reaches a conversation from India. Your brother Paul is missing there! Despite fear of flying, she immediately gets on its way. Arrived in New Delhi, one disaster lines up to another: the planned meeting with the informant bursts, on the way to the hotel, the taxi driver almost runs over a passerby, the accommodation does not meet Marie-Eve's usual standard and at all - how should she find her brother in this chaos? Finally, she embarks on an exciting journey across India..