Both have families, and both a gripped by a perilous passion. Simon, a school teacher, and Helga, the wife of a successful specialist in internal medicine, become acquainted on their daily trip to nursery school. They fall in love, and following an affectionate meeting and exchanges of tenderness, they have something akin to an affair. How is it to continue? The setting is a small, middle-class city (Salzburg), passion blossoms, but the families are also demanding their entitlement. Christmas is approaching, the ideal time for minor disasters. Shortly after the "family celebration", the scandal erupts...