Die Stunden vor Morgengrauen

Elizabeth and Tom Schubert are going through a marital crisis due to jealousy of him. They decide given a new opportunity and travel to Phuket in Thailand, where they expected Julia, a friend of Elizabeth to that Tom does not support. The couple had a heated argument and she decides to leave with Julia for a few days, a period in which lives a romance with an attractive architect.

Her daughter has just gone abroad for a school year when Anna's husband Rolf tells her that he wants a divorce. Anna, surprised and desperate, seeks refuge with her father Hannes. In her idyllic hometown, she meets her childhood sweetheart Nick again, whose wife took the life half a year ago. Nick's little daughter is so traumatized by this experience that she has not spoken out since. Anna cares lovingly for the child, and Anna and Nick come closer. But Rolf has since regretted his decision.