Romy and Ben are very happy because they are expecting their first child. “It will be the most beautiful day of our lives,” enthuses Romy about the birth of the baby. However, she has no idea what would soon happen to her.
Romy’s mother recently passed away. Since then, Romy has been supporting her father Wolfgang, who runs a nursery. She should also take over the gardening later – at least in Wolfgang’s imagination. Romy and Ben actually want to move to Rosenheim and run their own café there. When they bring this up, they quarrel with Wolfgang. This is a difficult situation, especially for Romy, because she has to choose between two parties: “I’ve always tried to please you both, to mediate, I tore myself between you, you’re such selfish stubborn, you have even thought about how I’m doing?”
Still agitated, Romy leaves the nursery to deliver flowers. When her mobile phone rings, she is briefly not paying attention and notices too late that there is construction work going on on the street. She has a car accident and is taken to the hospital. Here the doctors note that it the baby is fine, but Romy’s condition is critical: “The brain may already be badly damaged.”
Later Romy will for brain dead explained. Even now there is an argument, because her family has to decide whether they should be kept alive with the help of contraptions. While Ben and Lena Romy would still be artificially ventilated so that the baby could develop in the womb for a few more days, her father insists: “Romi has a living will. She didn’t want mechanical ventilation and no life-prolonging measures.”
