The 55-year-old rock bard Carsten is preparing for a furious comeback tour. At his birthday party, which his newly married daughter Clara and his second wife Maren are throwing for him, an unexpected guest turns up: Leonie, Clara's best friend. Nobody suspects that the talented singer has not just come to sing a surprise serenade. The 32-year-old has been having an affair for months with the artist, whose politically poetic music she has loved since childhood. Although both know it is over, they become passionately closer again away from the party. But when Leonie doesn't want sex, Carsten ignores her "no" ...