A father. A daughter. A house full of memories. A radical plea for living in the here and now.
When Franziska Roth returns to her family home in her fifties, her dream of a life as an environmental campaigner has failed and her relationship to her family has shattered. For decades, it was her older sister who took care of their parents. But she cannot cope any longer. Ever since their mother passed away, their father Heinrich drifts off into the past and can no longer walk. But he does not want to accept help, and definitely not from Franziska. And she doesn’t want to stay, either. The proposed modifications to the house, which Heinrich refuses to allow, fuel the unresolved conflicts anew. Neither of them can forget that Franziska never reconciled with her mother. At the same time, however, memories of happy times are rekindled: the days by the lake and the seemingly endless summer nights in the garden where they watched the flights of the fireflies. How can they live with the fact that all of that is irretrievably gone? Franziska’s brief visit turns into an entire summer in which they both learn to make peace with their lives and one another.
