In the turmoil of German reunification, Patty loses her job, loses her friend Jelena and disappears into the historic forest of the Kyffhäuser mountains. When she reappears in the nearby town thirty years later, barely aged, Jelena follows her ghostly apparition into the historical landscape of an East German present.

On the evening of St. Nicholas Day, Theo (18) loses his temper. He can no longer suppress the mixture of fear, anger and shame that has been stirred up in his family for years. A family that moves between caring and strictness without questioning itself and its traditions. What initially happens in secret finally unfolds before the eyes of the entire family: Theo is forced into the costume of Kram...