In 1816 the thirty-five year old Baroness, Jacquette Du Rietz dies.Count Gustaf Piper's grief is huge and in his despair he lets embalm his beloved Jacquette.
We are in East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and …