58-year-old hairdresser Melanie drives her son Stefan (32), a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel THE SALON. While the journey becomes an excursion into his past for Stefan, Melanie feels an oppressive sense of unease: who is her son, who suddenly talks as rudely as the people on TV and looks as if he hasn’t washed for three weeks? How is she supposed to assert herself in an environment that is actually completely alien to her and in which she sees no place for herself?