Susanne Kellermann

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details of an imaginary, much more successful life where she has friends and grandchildren. However, this diversion soon grows unhealthy when she becomes slowly convinced that the fantasies are real.

The Weidemann have a perfume factory but the business goes bad and blindly trust Marie, a young woman with a gift for the fragrances, to launch a new essence that will save the company. But Marie falls in love with Bernard, the heir of the family that owns the bank continually denied that the appropriations to the Weidemann.

Director, cinematographer and author Susanne Kellermann takes a very personal look at her husband Fritz Wepper. When he receives a serious cancer diagnosis in spring 2020, Susanne Kellermann begins to follow his everyday life and his work during the filming of the final episodes of "For Heaven's Sake". Fritz Wepper talks impressively about his childhood, the parallel filming of "Cabaret" and "Der Kommissar" and about dealing with the last things in life.