Young student Lene is standing at the train station; she must decide whether to take the train back to Berlin where she lives or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides--the place she left in anger many years ago. 'Hierankl' is the name of a Bavarian "Bergbauernhof", i.e., a solitary farm in the mountains with nothing else around but Alps, cows, and nature. Lene returns home to her beloved father Lukas, her rejecting mother Rosemarie, her brother Paul, and a dark, sinister farmhand. She walks through the places of her childhood and feels better. Things get better yet when Götz, a long-missed friend of her father's, arrives to celebrate Lukas' 60th birthday. Despite their significant age difference, Lene and Götz are attracted to each other, and they have a good time. But the day of celebration that should have been, turns into family day of reckoning, and more than one well-kept family secret is revealed.
Cheating Notes
9:10 - Rosemarie, Lene's mom, makes out with Vincenz, Rosemarie's son's childhood friend, just before Lene and her father (Lukas, Rosemarie's husband) arrives from the train station. That means she is currently having an affair with him.
45:12 - Lene has sex with Goetz, her father's long-time friend.
1:09:12 - Lene confronts her mother Rosemarie in Lukas' birthday party with the accusation that she had an affair with Goetz a long time ago. Rosemarie admits it and shocks Lene more when she tells her that Goetz is her real father and not Lukas.
1:12:32 - Goetz consoles Lene. She has sex with him again, even though she has found out that he is her real father. Although later, she talks to her mom about it and calls her a liar. That she's just saying that Goetz is her father so that Lene will not take him away from her.
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