On a class trip to church in spring, eight-year-old Liam Mehdamm learns that a clergyman has to keep secrets to himself. The boy uses this to confide in Pastor Sonnleitner that his four-year-old brother would hurt him very often. The child looks very depressed, but since the pastor is bound by the confessional secret, he asks the village helper Katja to take a look around at Liam's family.