Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be depicted both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.
Sensing that their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris. Alone in their Berlin flat, Julia decides that this is the time to drop her lover Frank, so she invites him to dinner. Deciding between the two men grows harder as Frank keeps impressing Julia with his wit and sex appeal, while Christian annoys her with a series of desperate calls from his refuge.
