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Saying goodbye to life is not easy for anyone. It is particularly difficult when it comes at a time when you are still in the prime of your life. Like Heike Schmidt. The 48-year-old has an incurable lung cancer. The doctors in the hospital could no longer help her. Now the 48-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of three is spending her last days in the Elisabethen Hospice in Darmstadt. Things are looking up again there. She feels good and is gaining new strength. The doctors and carers in the hospice only relieve pain, take away fears and cure symptoms, but they no longer heal. It is important to them that their patients have a dignified, self-determined farewell to life. Christian Lehmkühler, who is receiving medical and mental care from the outpatient palliative care team, also wants this. He has decided to die at home, with his wife Anja, in his own four walls. The 35-year-old sports and maths teacher is also terminally ill and has sarcoma cancer. He knows what to expect and gives us a deep insight into the fears, feelings and thoughts of a dying person. But he also gives us courage. Both Heike Schmidt and Christian Lehmkühler have ups and downs, but also sadness and contentment in the last weeks of their lives. Michaela Bergholz captured these moments for the film.