It is Paul's birthday. He is 37 and at a point in his life where he has reached everything he had wished for: a professional reputation, a well-achieved peer group, a beautiful wife with a baby on the way, and a tasteful apartment with a view on Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, the newly-opened park and former airfield in the middle of the city. He feels like he has finally arrived. Or at least that is what he keeps telling himself. But the events of this day take an unexpected turn when he meets a stranger in the park who tells him to open his ears. Paul must face reality.