In just one night, a young woman has to search the streets of Berlin for her homeless father, who has become a stranger to her - and under cover of darkness, the secrets of her GDR past come to light.

It's a cold winter night in Berlin when a young woman steps out of the shower and trembles after her package of cigarettes. Empty! Desperate she begins a hunt for cigarettes. But it doesn't start well. She locks herself out, it starts to rain, and when she finally find a cigarette machine the coin gets stuck in the machine. She goes from there, angry and shaking and partly unknowing of the strange chain of reaction, that she just started