It's about the question of the "right life". When Paul receives a life-threatening diagnosis, the answer is all the more urgent. Together with his friend, he begins a journey through time, back to the days of his childhood. Paul's grandparents' conventional philosophy of life, which always found its own individual expression while safeguarding their own interests, makes his carefree childhood at Lake Starnberg appear in a different light in retrospect. By interweaving the 1950s with the present, Paul comes closer to understanding. And even if, from today's perspective, he considers quite a few of the arrangements of the time to be questionable, his benevolent, appreciative attitude brings him very close to "life lived properly".