Checko returns from the cities to his home in the Allgäu region. He wants to check on his grandfather Felix, who now lives alone—a loner, a recluse, as they say. The old man and the young man set off on a journey. Felix is searching for the story, for history, but also for the story of his friend Anton, with whom he distributed leaflets against the murderous regime during the Third Reich and with whom he also shared a girlfriend.