When her 14-year-old daughter Charlotte (Alicia von Rittberg) goes out drinking with friends and is caught by the police in a stolen car, single mother Anna Waldmann (Veronica Ferres), decides it is high time to remove her daughter from the negative influence of city life in Berlin. Anna, a photographer who is out of work at the moment, decides on the spur of the moment that they will go to distant New Zealand, to visit her father, Professor Johannes Waldmann (Mario Adorf)… even though father and daughter haven't been in close contact for many years.
