Albert Gottwald is a retired dance teacher and has been a widower for three years. He misses his wife so much that he has lost all courage to face life, buries himself in his semi-detached house - and meticulously plans his death.

• Constantin Television
• ARD
• Ulrich Matthes
• Nina Kunzendorf
• Antonia Bill
• Virginia Leithäuser
• Pit Bukowski
• Petra Kleinert
• Christine Schorn
• Akiko Hitomi