Mo (Eva Mattes) lost her heart to Tom (Werner Stocker), but left him nine years ago for no apparent reason. Now she lives together with son Benjamin (Teo Gostischa) in Hamburg. Mo has another man, Tom has been living with another woman for some time. When Mo learns that she is terminally ill, she returns to her great love, Tom. Both feel instinctively that they still love each other. But Mo reveals nothing of her illness and their child.