On the eve of her 60th birthday, a woman reunites her family to announce she's no longer taking her medication.

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Gitte summons her family to her country house to celebrate good news: after 30 years, she is no longer taking her antidepressants and all is well. Her desire is for freedom, much like her husband Günter, who has recently decided to sell his publishing business to devote himself to research. Although her eldest son Marko, who lives in Berlin with his son, takes the news well, Jakob, who lives nearby, is angry. As a dentist who studied medicine, he is troubled by the fact that his mother doesn't fall into his arms and that his father has planned a trip to Jordan without the slightest intention of taking along his wife. Gitte, disturbed that she isn't getting the support she wanted, gets into her car and disappears...

How much independence can one hope for within a family, especially if one has passively consecrated one's life to it? How can roles be redistributed? Does one member have to shoulder everyone else's troubles? Are everyone's roles completely fixed? Adapted from the book by Bernd Lange, who also wrote the screenplay, this film by Hans-Christian Schmid (Requiem) has intimate questions for the audience. Corinna Harfouch's Gitte is too strong for the storyline and Ernst Stötzner (Günter) is not much of an authoritative and despotic family man.