Elli is a couples therapist, successful specialist author and a strict advocate of always telling the truth – only at Christmas has the family put on a big show for years, because the adult children still know nothing about their parents’ separation. But this year their plan doesn’t work out and chaos is inevitable. Like every year, Elli and her ex-husband Robert want to play the perfect family under the tree – but her ex-husband’s new fiancée Chrissi and Elli’s new love Micha are no longer on board. They finally want to be there when the children Sanna, Tobias and Leonie celebrate with their parents. The Christmas goose has only just come out of the oven and is steaming crispy on the dining table when the dilemma culminates and Elli’s painstakingly staged world of harmony inevitably shatters…