Eddie and Cleo run a rural brewery with an ailing economy. Johnny is bank manager in a small provincial town, and his wife, Katie, has a weak heart. The couples meet for the first time four years after their adolescent children, Nina and Fritz, fell in love and drowned in the lake at Eddie's and Cleo's house. Now the parents try to understand, why the children anesthetized themselves with sleeping pills and let the boat go down into the dark water. It seems like no time has passed...
