The story is set in a drab 200-soul provincial village in Brandenburg called Zuhlen. Markus and Ella have known one another since nursery school; two childhood sweethearts who share an ostensibly unrelenting love. Their marriage has an aura of inviolable childlike innocence. Markus goes to the county town with the volunteer fire department for their annual fire-fighters trip. The evening's festivities get out of hand and Markus eventually waking up in the apartment of the pretty waitress Rose.
