Successful choreographer Sue (48) takes her devoted dance company to rehearsals in a residence in an old manor house in the country. With them for the first time is her son Michel (17), who is a young musician and is supposed to be part of the performance. When Sue notices that her most important dancer Eduard (29) is falling in love with her son and that Michel does not reject this love, Sue has to fight her jealousy: she is also secretly in love with the bisexual Eduard. The entire company is now confronted with Sues rising waves of emotions, in their heated emotionality, they stage the play in ever louder, more complicated, and more physically demanding ways. After a rehearsal accident caused by Michel, the play is on the verge of failure and then on top of that Tobi (51), Michel‘s manic-depressive father, shows up to save the relationship with Sue.