The back cabinet must always remain free. Like a kind of bed and breakfast. Always tidy and available at any time: Herta only moved into Gustl at that time under this condition. Because the missing child comes back. Sometime. And suddenly he stands there, a prodigal son. But it's not who you've been waiting for, it's Samir, 17, and a Syrian refugee. Perhaps out of humanity or sentimentality, but maybe also out of defiance towards Gustl, who wants to throw Samir out of the apartment immediately, Herta enforces that the young man may stay. Or must. Samir's arrival sets in motion a process of reconsideration: the mere presence of the German language is not enough for her to break up the stuck everyday life of Herta and Gustl and make her question her monotonous relationship.