Two brothers, Marten and Volker, finally meet up again at their parents’ abandoned house on a North Sea island after years of estrangement. Marten wants to persuade his younger brother Volker to help him get his mother out of prison, where she has been since the death of their father.

Between regret and responsibility, this patient, naturalistic film holds grand emotions as two brothers grapple with the alien yet painfully familiar memories of their family home. With profound compassion, Nordstrand shows that the inevitable must be confronted to lift the fog of the past.