The time is 1985. The alcoholic JOSEPH lives alone and neglected in a rundown two-family house with garden. When his younger sister, a single-parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter NINA, an unexpected friendship develops between Joseph and the uncared for little girl. Thirty-five years later the two meet again. In the meantime, Nina has become a drug addict and is in trouble. Joseph sets off to try and help her.