»Imagine if Death were to become a woman and living amongst us. She would be terrified and confused by Life. Her only intimacy would be the ultimate one – the one of assisting the dying. Her only fascination would be la petit mort, dying in a sexual act. Ultimately, she would be conquered by a Life that is crueller than her.«
– Urszula Antoniak

Marian (Bien de Moor) is in her mid-forties and has already spun around herself a cocoon of fictitious family relationships and obligations, a construct that renders her life lonely. In fact, she only has contact with other people if they are seriously ill or dying. A nurse by profession, Marian is an efficient, perfectly functioning and self-sacrificing assistant in a hospital where death is omnipresent. For her patients, she gives her all. If she notices that a patient no longer wishes to live, she even provides her own euthanasia service.
But then on the bus one day, she encounters a new neighbour (Lars Eidinger) and her life takes a radical turn. She’s mesmerised by him; she follows him; she watches him from her window. And when she witnesses a brutal rape outside her block of flats one evening, she sees that the neighbour is also standing at the window, also watching. Neither of them takes any action but this shared act of voyeurism leads to an unintended intimacy between them. As a result of this particular night, Marian’s life begins to fall apart as she slowly but unrelentingly experiences an ardent longing in herself to »disappear« during sex. A thought that at once fascinates and scares her. So when she eventually commits an error in hospital, she makes a decision.