Summer days on the French Riviera. A hillside villa with an open sea view. Whoever lives here has made it. Merle follows the invitation of her lover but upon arrival she only meets his children, Emma and Felix. They are not aware of their fathers' relationship. A quiet but persistent fight for the status quo begins. Merle struggles for the possibility of a socially promising future, which is increasingly fading away before her own eyes Written by unafilm

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. But falling in love anew, Undine reworks the myth of the mysterious water spirit as a modern fairy-tale in a disenchanted world.