Even in retirement ex-nurse Ruby remains an irrepressible maverick with a talent for causing chaos. But when Ruby is herself hospitalised she guilts her estranged youngest son Chris to return from his life abroad and become her personal night nurse. Chris has a strained relationship with his mother and wants to return as soon as possible to his pregnant girlfriend in Germany. But there is one thing that could reunite Chris with his mother: when Ruby finally is giving up her last secret, who Chris’s father really is. In this touching dramedy sparkling with humour, we relive the extraordinary spirit of a woman who never stopped fighting for a dignified, fulfilled life.