When you have no goal, you have to invent one! It's a classic yet still shocking: Your husband is cheating on you with a young colleague! And Anna Michaelis leaves. She packs some clothes and takes the first flight to Edinburgh. Her journey leads her to the National Gallery. In a painting by Gauguin, a woman depicted from the back suddenly begins to speak. It's the start of a game. Anna continues her travels. She stands before paintings around the world and discovers accomplices who tell stories of longing, the everyday life of marriage, and love. In engaging with the artworks, Anna reflects on her own marriage and finds the courage for a new self-image. Anna Michaelis, a 50-year-old journalist, takes her credit card, her carry-on luggage, and leaves. She has just learned that her husband, a classical philologist at a high school in Munich, is cheating on her with a young colleague. Anna wants.