Suicidal but witty Wilbur and his good-hearted older brother Harbour are in their 30s when their father dies and leaves them a run-down second-hand bookshop. Wilbur survives a suicide attempt and goes to the hospital where he meets Horst, a cynical psychologist and his empathetic head nurse, Moira. Like Harbour, they believe that he needs a girlfriend. But even though women fall for Wilbur all the time, they can′t get close to him. In fact, it is Harbour who falls in love when the shy and intense Alice enters the lives of the brothers. Alice lives a life in isolation with her little daughter, Mary. She supplements her job as a cleaning lady at the hospital′s surgery ward by selling books that patients have left behind. Little but little, Wilbur, Harbour and Alice become inseparable. Harbour has never been happier, but he carries a deep secret that threatens to surface...