It is the taboo of double silence: Wordlessly, the adult child leaves, more or less abruptly, while the father and mother are left confused and ashamed. This happens often, but Karlotta knows nothing of it. She is bewildered when she realizes that her thirty-year-old only son is increasingly turning away from her and refusing to have a clarifying conversation. She desperately wonders what she has done wrong. Is she perhaps a clinging mother monster? Ultimately, she breaks the taboo and seeks open exchange in a self-help group for abandoned parents. She experiences the full bitterness of the sidelined mothers and fathers, listens to children who have cut off contact, discusses possible explanations, and clings to wishful thinking. All with one goal: Karlotta does not want to lose her son. In the end, Karlotta finds herself.