One day Sonja's mother discovers a hair barrette in her room of the retirement home. She remembers her shining youth she spent in Paris and her first love, Theo, from which she got the barrette. When her daughter Sonja visits, she tells her about her wish to go back to Paris again. Sonja manages to take some days off and plans to take a trip with her mother. But suddenly, a new project comes in which makes it impossible for Sonja to go abroad. Torn between the relationship to her mother and the responsibility for her job, she has to make a decision.