Ein Dorf in der Eifel, unweit von Köln: Sophie Bergkamp und Sven Richter geben sich das Jawort. Die Kirche ist zur Hälfte gefüllt. Deutlich heben sich die Kölner vom Großteil der Dörfler ab, unter denen sich auch Sophies Vater Johann und ihr Bruder Markus befinden. “…bis dass der Tod uns scheidet” verspricht sich das frisch vermählte Paar. Wer hätte geahnt, wie schnell das gehen würde. Als Johann Bergkamp in Köln eintrifft, wo er seiner Tochter bei den Vorbereitungen zur Einweihungsparty ihrer neuen Wohnung helfen wollte, ist es bereits zu spät. Sie sei beim Aufhängen der Girlanden aus dem Fenster gefallen und auf der Stelle tot gewesen, erzählen die Leute. Johann will es nicht wahrhaben. In der folgenden Zeit ist der pensionierte Verwaltungsbeamte kaum wieder zu erkennen.

How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth birthday, but with an operation looming, Linda nonetheless feels a deep need to spend what might be her last weekend with her two sisters: Katharina who is older, and Clara who is younger than her. Linda must use their journey, which begins at their family’s weekend house and ends in Paris, to examine the ways in which her family has been fundamentally affected by her illness; she must also consider how much she can expect from herself and her sisters – faced as they are with the possibility of her death.

2014 film by Hermine Huntgeburth

2009 television film directed by Nina Grosse

2020 television film directed by Sven Bohse

Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.