On a world trip, 19 years ago, Tracy fromAmerica stranded in South Tirol. Since then she lives lonesomely in the mountains the secluded and quiet life of a goatherd. Through the last autumn a slow and still camera is accompanying her life with the animals. She explains how the long periods of loneliness in winter are changing her, why she decided to leave her old home Colorado to live a life far from the western norm.