In June 2024, Joanna's 20-year-old son Philipos was beaten after his sister's high school graduation party in the German town of Bad Oeynhausen. He died two days later, and the arrest of the alleged attacker, a 19-year-old Syrian, turned Philipos's death into a national story, seized on in parliament and the press to reignite Germany's asylum debate. Joanna refuses to join that argument, pointing out that her son's doctor was Syrian, so is her hairdresser, and she herself is Polish. The film follows her instead through the private work of grief: sessions with a prison psychologist and a priest as she asks whether she is allowed to be angry, and whether she must forgive. It shows her sitting across from the defendant at the Bielefeld Regional Court, hearing witness statements and forensic testimony, and confronting autopsy images of her son. Interviews and courtroom footage stay close to her voice throughout, tracking a mother choosing to face every painful detail rather than look away.