A German woman secretly gives birth to a child in occupied Paris and immediately puts it up for adoption. No one except her sister learns about the child. Nobody is allowed to know, because it is a child by the enemy. But the father, a French officer, takes care of the child. And he woos the mother of his son in letters, but she marries a German. Sixty years later everything comes to light. Only a few hours after his mother dies in 1996, Dietrich Fey finds documents that prove that he is not an only child and never was. Told from the perspective of all the living people involved, the film gives an account of the belated reunion of a German-French family. Sometimes life is more exciting than any fiction.