Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi has a fatal illness. She decides to keep the diagnosis secret from him and persuades him to go on a trip together instead. When she herself dies unexpectedly in a hotel on the Baltic Sea, Rudi is thrown off course. When he learns from his daughter's friend that Trudi apparently sacrificed the life she wanted to live out of love for him, he sees his deceased wife with new eyes. He begins to make up for the life she missed out on...