Teresa is an Austrian mother, who is fifty years old. She decides to take a trip to Kenya's beaches in pursuit of love from African boys.
A fifty-year-old single woman uses vacation time to serve as a missionary in Vienna, but she also engages in brutal self-punishment, losing sight of her physical and mental limitations.
While her mother is away in Kenya and her aunt is engaged in missionary work, thirteen-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight kids. Melanie develops feelings for the camp director, a doctor who is forty years older than her.