Emil is unable to cry. Lively moments of joy and sadness do not occur to him. But as even the disgruntled neighbor sheds a tear in the cinema, he decides to finally learn how to do it. He braces himself against an icy storm and gets into a nasty fight with his girlfriend Ida. But no matter what he does - crying just won’t work for him. Only when he starts to talk to his father whom he meets with every week to eat cake in his car, he gets overwhelmed by his emotions.