Giona is a nurse, full of ideals but with little practical
experience, on the verge of being fired. Margi is a control-
freak private driver, dependent on anxiolytics and close
to burnout. They are a family, about to split up. They have
already lost a child, and now they discover that Alis, their
sixteen-year-old daughter, has a very rare disease and
only a few months to live.
In search of money for the only possible, extremely
expensive treatment, the family asks Margi’s centenarian
aunt, Countess Vittoria, who owns a villa in the Alps, for
help. She offers them something else. Hidden in the forest
beyond the villa is a miraculous Spring capable of curing
any illness. Provided that the disease is transferred to
another person. Giona decides to sacrifice himself, but at
the moment of the exchange he is paralysed by panic. So,
it is Margi who falls ill from an unsuspecting Alis.
Back home, however, the two cannot resign themselves
to fate, and take the tragic decision to pay someone else
to get sick to heal Margi. But the Spring does not work on
her. In a desperate attempt to save Margi’s life, the family
starts to exploit the Spring, but every exchange asks
for a sacrifice…