 The film takes place an unspecified number of months after the Munich Massacre in West Germany.Emmi (Mira), a 60-year-old window cleaner and widow, enters a bar, driven in by the rain and wanting to listen to the music being played inside.A woman in the bar (Katharina Herberg) tauntingly suggests Ali (Salem), a Moroccan "Gastarbeiter" (guest worker) in his late thirties, ask Emmi to dance, to which Emmi accepts.