Overview

LEA (14) is torn from her life. She hastily sets off for a weekend in the Alps with her parents BARBARA (46) and THOMAS (44) and her brother PAUL (10) , who suffers from a particularly severe mental disability.

As they make their way to the mountains, Lea's memories, which reach deeper and deeper into the past, gradually reveal the family's past history. As part of a cosmic group, they believe that humanity originated on Jupiter. They are also convinced that Paul, who is unable to communicate due to his disadvantage and who has therefore always dominated family life, is entirely rooted on the distant planet. The charismatic leader WOLF (56) repeatedly urges his disciples to remember this true identity.

Once in the mountains, the exhausting climb to the summit mirrors all too well Lea's equally tough struggle for a place in this world, torn between the ideology of her parents and the expectations of her worldly surroundings: friends, class community, first crush. The family is warmly welcomed by the other members of the group in a hut area. Together they want to witness a comet passing the earth on its way to Jupiter. Even though Lea begins to doubt the group's ideology, in this seclusion she enjoys the peace and quiet of an increasingly complicated world and the chaos of puberty.

The harmony is abruptly shattered when she catches her father building a strange machine and he reveals to her the true purpose of their stay: The group is planning a collective suicide through which their souls will ascend to the passing comet and thus reach Jupiter. For the first time, Lea resists her parents' orders and desperately tries to dissuade her family from this plan. But the prospect of finally being able to communicate with her son on Jupiter makes her parents shake off any doubts. It is memories of social exclusion, of the family's years of desperate struggle to achieve something like normality with Paul, that conjure up a sense of family in the girl. Together they are strong.

Wolf implores his followers one last time to renounce the lies of this world and return to their true home. Only when the deadly machine starts up does Lea make a decision under a flood of childhood memories: she wants to stay on earth and accept life with all its challenges. At the last moment, she frees herself from the machine and staggers outside, where the comet passes over her in a blaze of fireworks. Lea has freed herself from the group's ideology, but has also lost her family once and for all. Left to her own devices, she sets off into the valley to venture her own path into an undefined future.