When Mathias was nine years old the doctors finally found the answer to his problems. The signs began about a year before. His hearing went bad, he had increasingly difficulties concentrating and his grades at school started sliding. After a long and frustrating search for answers, the doctors finally concluded that he suffers from an genetical disease that destroys his brain. The illness progresses and becomes deaf, paralyzed and loses the abiltiy to speak. Making matters even worse, the youngest son, Felix is also a bearer of the same disease. For Mathias there is no hope, but can they save Felix?