Single mother Antonia takes her seven year old son at the last minute to a remote bus stop in Berlin, from where the boy alone with his father traveled to Paris on vacation. Because they are so her work as a chambermaid in a hotel takes up time, she gets in trouble with their superiors, but is taken from their shift supervisor in protection. Stirred by the departure of her son and because of the accusations in the hotel, she confides to a colleague the same age that she had not had sex for several years more, the colleague advises her to take the next opportunity.