Since her older brother Dennis jumped to his death two years ago, 17-year-old Rebekka has been trying in vain to come to terms with his suicide. Her parents are mainly concerned with maintaining their bourgeois façade and, like the village community, have long since identified a "culprit" for Dennis' death: Vincent, his best friend, who jumped off the bridge with him and miraculously survived the fall. When he returns to the small town in the Black Forest after a long absence, the old wounds tear open again. Rebekka, however, sees the dismissive eccentric as the only way to finally understand who her brother really was. Against the bitter resistance of Rebekka's parents, the two teenagers become closer and a stormy love affair develops, which has a healing but also increasingly destructive effect. Rebekka is drawn deeper into her brother's emotional world than she would like. When the situation escalates, she has to make a tough decision...