Welcome to the Middle Ages! Lucinde and Heike are around fifty. They used to think that this was the age at which one finally arrives. Serious, self-assured, dignified! Now they know better: they have seen through the fairy tale of aging with dignity. So they decide to do only what they feel like doing - like sneaking out of boring operas or disregarding common beauty ideals while still trying Botox. At the risk of their children finding them somewhat embarrassing. And that they might still not have arrived by the time they are eighty...