In the 1960s, Birgit fled East Berlin out of love and the desire for freedom to join Kaspar in the West. Now, after Birgit's death, Kaspar discovers that his wife paid a price for that decision. She left behind her baby, a girl, whose existence she had hidden from him all his life. Kaspar, who has a bookstore in Berlin, decides to leave for the former East Germany in search of that girl who is already a woman. Thus, he undertakes a journey to the past and present of Germany, and when he finally finds Svenja, the lost daughter, he discovers that she lives in a rural community, she is married to a neo-Nazi and has a daughter, Sigrun. Kaspar would like to see a new family in them, but an entire ideological universe separates them, despite which he will try to get closer to who he considers his granddaughter and give her a different vision of the world.