A few years after the fall of the Wall. The bitter socialist Robert Lekroucha (62) lives with his son Vladimir (13) in the East German province. After an unexpected inheritance, he has taken up a young woman’s job ad and invited her to work for him as a domestic servant.

But when Irma Freimars appears at his place, things are not as they should be either. Irma comes from the hated West, is not a young woman, wears a cross around her neck and drinks sour Riesling!

Out of a socialist reflex, he hires her anyway. But soon Robert is annoyed by her French food and her religiosity. Just like his son, who prefers to read his father’s old diaries, in which he relives his first erotic experiences with full concentration.

But little by little Irma manages to get closer to both Vladimir and Robert. The two existences, each failed in their own way, gradually become closer and Robert even finds the strength to get the farm going again together with his old LPG comrades. But when his friend Paul is fatally injured in an accident, Robert, full of guilt, falls into his old lethargy.

When Irma decides to turn her back on the madness of the village and return to her native Baden, father and son travel after her and are finally able to convince her to return to the East.