In a car accident Christian Dewenter (Goetz Schubert) suddenly loses his wife (Lena Stolze). For the first time, the unfaithful husband, his estranged son (Max Riemelt) and his pubescent daughter (Mathilde Bundschuh) are forced to act together as a family. Christian is incapable of allowing his grief and comforting his children. So he desperately seeks a little closeness with his lover and for a moment he even spins the crazy idea of running off to Amsterdam with her. Lars doesn’t really care for the province and just wants to leave quickly. Together with his former classmate and friend, the funeral director Benjamin (Michael Kranz), he has to take care of the formalities for the funeral. In the period between the death of the mother and the funeral, all those left behind have to deal with the question: „What helps in such a situation?