After WWII, Helene is ready to do anything to start a new life. As a young woman, she came to the exciting Berlin of the roaring 20s, wanting to become a doctor, and soon fell in love with a man named Karl. But the course of her life took a drastic, irreversible turn when the Nazis came into power.

SUMMER. HEAT. SWEAT. CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER. ALL BECOMES DARKNESS.

Jochen, a man in his forties, has achieved little in his life. Through an abstruse incident, he gets to know his grown-up daughter Hanna, whom he knew nothing about until then. From now on he wants to be a dad his daughter can be proud of. So, animated by a television report, he begins to train for a triathlon.