Anna's brother lives in seclusion in Greenland, and the older Alex has always been fascinated only by ice and loneliness. After the death of his parents, Anna wants to bring him a painting, the only one from the family house on the vineyard that Alex loved. While Anna searches for him in the Arctic with her thousand kinds of white, all the secrets of the family come to light, an almost normal German-Swiss family that lived on Lake Constance as if far away from the passage of time. And yet wars and upheavals took a heavy toll on her life. There is the story of the painter friend Otto Marquard, who helped persecuted people to escape and was arrested himself. The grandfather Josef, the 'miracle doctor', who exaggerated ice bathing. And last but not least, the love marriage of Anna's German mother to the handsome Swiss Paul - which turned into a great, quiet drama of strangeness. While Anna tells everything, the good and bad hours, the wounds and pain, she also discovers the healing power of beauty and closeness, which have always been there despite everything. And can reassemble the fragmented image of the family.