Julian is a psychiatric patient and wants to walk from Berlin to southern . He believes that through the power of walking he can heal his friend's father, who has died of a heart condition. First, he runs into Ju, a young doctor, who he soon meets again by chance. She feels unhappy, searches for her heart and spontaneously s the likeable dreamer on his way to Tuttlingen, where the sick man lives. In a tourist resort, they are ed by a frustrated wife and mother.