An employee of the German embassy returns from a business trip to his apartment earlier than planned.

He has no wife, she has a lover. The son, an 11-year-old boy, is under the supervision of a neighbor. Suddenly, his son had an attack of appendicitis, and he was taken to hospital. The wife's phone does not answer. The hero guesses where she may be, and goes to the restaurant. A young woman in her 30s sits next to him, whom he takes to be a prostitute. But in the end, the woman pours him a glass of sleeping pills and literally kidnaps our hero, taking him to his girlfriend's country house in a car stolen by her. In the morning, after waking up, the hero finds himself handcuffed to the gutter. Later, the motives for the woman's behavior are clarified. She has a seriously ill only child. Urgent expensive operation is required. At the clinic, she was told to wait in line or look for money for treatment abroad. And she doesn't want to wait. Her conditions are harsh – if her child is not sent abroad for treatment by evening, she will kill the hostage.