Joseph, a young man, does not take over the family farm but moves to the city instead. However, he does not feel at home there. He buys a house in a small village and meets a woman. Katharina stays with him for two years, and one day she disappears. His younger brother Wilhelm has died in an accident. In his thoughts, Joseph returns to Magdalenaberg, the place of his childhood. But his parents are increasingly silent. The disasters happen slowly and insidiously. Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker tells a serious and poignant story, as modern as it is ancient, about origins and family, longing and loss.