Plot

On her 45th birthday, housewife Theresa Jessen is transferred once again to a business appointment by her husband Richard, a busy building contractor. The two adult children Tobias and Nina gladly use their mother's services, but they don't even have time to accompany them to the dentist on this day, which Theresa is quite nervous about. So Theresa spontaneously decides something crazy: To leave the gray everyday life behind, she gets on the next bus to Usedom and rents a room at the "Möwe" guesthouse. What was planned as a day trip turns into an indefinite holiday in the enchanting, slightly dilapidated hotel with a view of the lake. Theresa gives the fun-loving pension landlady Elisabeth Rosenbauer a hand and enjoys the unexpected attention and recognition of the illustrious pensioners. Above all, the amiable advances of the divorced boat builder Sebastian Schneider are balm for the soul of the neglected wife and mother. In the relaxed atmosphere, Theresa also passes the driver's license test and strengthens her scratched self-confidence. Richard finally notices that something has probably gone wrong and makes his way to Usedom. When on arrival he witnesses, unnoticed, how Sebastian makes a fiery declaration of love for his wife, he takes up the fight: Richard hires himself in as "Mr. Neumann" and does everything in his power to win his wife's heart again. It's not that easy, because Theresa has changed in the meantime. And she clearly enjoys the fact that two admirers are vying for her.—ARD Das Erste