Since their adolescent son Markus moved out with his presumably gay buddy, old couple Richard and Charlotte's ailing routine marriage raffles apart over her unrealistic romantic aspirations and revelations trough a common friend of an affair he had years ago with her best friend. That makes charming, unassuming, handsome young teacher Thomas irresistible, a,d Richard bluffs not minding them dating, only to prove embarrassingly he can't handle it. Matters are complicated by an old common dream, for which they bought but never fixed a small Spanish cabin, and Markus find a spouse there.