[1][2] The film tells the story of Albert, a man in his mid-30s, and his mother, the mountain farmer Marianne.

Albert is the only surviving child of the Eggerhof farmers Marianne and Rudl, his three siblings died on the way to school in an avalanche accident many years ago.

The introverted Albert initially found it difficult to make friends there, occasionally sneaking back into the yard to spend the night secretly in the hay store.

Marianne hides this fact from her son and the outside world, fearing that Albert might return to the farm to take over his father's duties, and buries Rudl's body on the mountain.

But he has now settled in the valley and met Paola, a Hungarian guest worker and canteen cook at the marble quarry, with whom a love story is beginning.