The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents. Their family has gone to pieces over the suffering and death of the mother. The father, a construction worker, is heavily struck by grieve and absents himself from home until late in the evening, because he cannot bear the house and the sons who remind him of his wife. Thus Oli and Jan are left to look after themselves. While the younger of the two withdraws into his own world, the older tries to make up for what is missing. They cope with the daily routine – a lonesome twosome.