Stanbury - a small village in the southwest of Yorkshire. The countryside is distinctive and romantic, and this is were five German fans have been spending their holidays together for years now: they meet regularly in the old Stanbury House, with its extensive grounds and the charm of times long gone. However, this idyllic scene, which seems to deny the existence of any argument or conflicts, is deceptive. For things between Alexander (Bernhard Schir), Tim (Dirk Martens), as wife Evelin (Gesine Cukrowski), Patricia (Eva Herzig) and her husband Leon (Felix Eitner), who all pretend to be one big happy family, are not really harmonious at all.
Jessica Wahlberg (Christine Neubauer) has become engaged to Alexander and is therefore new to this A circle of friends -- and can peer behind the facade with an objective eye. She quickly notices that nothing is the way it seems... And nobody is the person he pretends to be. Behind the smiling silences which descend over the house and its inhabitants various emotions have extended over the years: hatred, jealousy, fear and despair. Jessica, who finds it increasingly difficult to bear this hypocrisy, begins to take refuge in long, lonely walk. But who is the curious stranger wanders through the fields and forests around Stanbury House and suddenly, with reference to events in the distant past, announces that he has claims to ownership of the property? Why does occur is attempting to discover the secret of this Phillip Bowen (Martin Feifel), the pretend world of Stanbury House, which was maintained with such effort, begins to collapse. A terrible crime marks the end of decades of silence and confronts the survivors with their own very personal truths.