Anja, 53, is a literature professor. When her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimers, she promised to end his sufferings in time. Her yo ung niece Mari, 16, falls in love with her handsome teacher Julian. Is this a way out of the girl’s self-mutilation? Julian has a loving wife at home. Their sweet and wise daughter Anni, 6, studies daddy’s sudden change secretly. The three stories are elegantly woven together, as the three female characters struggle with their lives and sometimes flirt with death.