"I want to see you take a shower. You don’t dry yourself and you sit on my lap. Then I towel you and want to caress your body. And call you Lydia." The grown-up son of the writer finds these lines to a prostitute – and Lydia is his sister. When Lydia comes home to support her father in his therapy against alcohol addiction, Bernhard joins the family meeting. With benumbed face he puts the found paper on the table, which makes the father leave without a word. After wandering around for a while the father gets his shotgun from the basement to repent in his own way. Where does guilt begin? Daughter Lydia has never been sexually assaulted – yet knowing about the father’s fantasies disrupts the family. The facade of normality crushes.
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