A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that’s how she feels about it) and soon she’ll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.