Shards bring luck - and if that's not the case, then they at least testify to movement. Anne's life breaks free from the stagnation of a monotonous marriage when she and her husband Jakob embark on a journey to Diessen for the first time in many years. With their visit to her old hometown, they aim to rekindle the cooled relationship with Anne's cousin Ursel, while also reconciling with the place they turned their backs on after a tragedy. A brief moment of truth then causes the carefully constructed framework of their lives, built over decades, to collapse. Suddenly, nothing is as it was - is it rather how it should be?.