Keith Stapperpfennig comes from a unique family. He knows little about his mother and nothing at all about his father. Together with four supposed siblings, he grew up with his grandfather - always with new, younger grandmothers. Keith has fallen in love with one of them. For their grandfather's eightieth birthday, the grandchildren gift him a trip to a destination of his choice. When he wishes for China, no one wants to accompany him - in the end, it falls to Keith. For the first time in his life, he rebels, squanders the travel money, and lets his grandfather go alone. But then Keith receives a call from the youngest grandmother, informing him that his grandpa has died in the Westerwald. He must conjure up a story that convinces his siblings that the trip took place - and invents his own China. However, the deeper Keith gets entangled in his lies, the clearer it becomes...