'I'm Karla. I still know who I am.' When Ella reads a poem by Rilke to her father in the home, who suffers from dementia, it is not he but old Karla who awakens from the fog of oblivion. Ella is fascinated by this woman. When she dies shortly afterwards, Ella inherits a suitcase full of documents, photos, letters and diary entries and gets on the trail of a woman who has found her very own way through life. And who wanted to decide for themselves until the end. Soon Ella is forced to question her own story ...