At the same time Jonathan's single sister, Natasha and her puckish young daughter Josie are struggling for distance, closeness, trust, desire and fear of loss.

Director Fabian Stumm exposes the cracks in partnerships on various levels with great seriousness and sensitivity, without compromising the entertainment value of his debut.

The portrayal of a long-term relationship between love, sensitivities, habit and not always admitted desire for something new between two partners, played very engagingly by Fabian Stumm and Knut Berger, is also convincing.

"[10] In contrast, Lida Bach of movie break rated the film 3 out of 10 and wrote, "Fabian Stumm's meaningless and uneventful self-reflection works best as an involuntary milieu study of the upper middle class."

Concluding Bach opined that "production is a lesson in cinematic adeptism" and said, "In addition to relevance and substance, it lacks humor and drama.