It is the first time in six years that the single mother music teacher Lisa has a summer without her son ahead of her. But the long-awaited freedom also brings doubts. There is the longing for her child and the question of what kind of woman she actually is when she is not a mother. While looking for a restorer for her old neglected violin, she meets the fruit farmer Ute in her cherry orchard, a woman who no longer has time for compromises. Lisa soon realizes that the question about herself is closely linked to everything that has always been kept quiet in her family. And she experiences the irresistible magic of a summer between the abysses of the past and the premonition of a new freedom. Two women, an old violin and the irresistible magic of a summer - no one writes about identity and femininity as shimmeringly light and beautiful as bestselling author Anne Stern.