Is it possible to fall truly in love again in your mid-forties—and if so, with whom? Primary school teacher Sam should be perfectly content with her life: she has a cozy apartment in an old building in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, wonderful friends, and the best daughter in the world. She'd long since given up hope of finding true love—until she runs into her childhood crush, Max, at a class reunion in her hometown of Lüneburg. While she eagerly anticipates their next date like a teenager, school, her aging parents, and the new, surprisingly young headmaster, Finn, are driving her crazy. To distract herself from her emotional turmoil, Sam does what she enjoys most: baking macarons. And while she's baking, she wonders if, at 43, she should take a chance on something completely new—in her career and in her love life...