Actually everything was forgotten, the ghosts of the past were banished. But then one stroke of fate followed the other and it was time to meet the demons.

In the mid-1970s, Elfi falls in love with Sepp. Since both are "slightly" disabled, serious problems soon arise. The decisions about their lives are made by others. What they simply imagine—marriage, having children, and simply being happy—becomes a difficult undertaking without a happy ending.

A near-fatal accident involving their teen daughters upends the lives of two families as they consider how far they're willing to go to save their child.