Albert Heringa assisted his elderly stepmother 'Moek' in her suicide in 2008. He knows that he risks a prison sentence because, according to Article 294, paragraph 2 of the Penal Code, assisting in suicide is punishable. In September 2013, he has to answer to the judge. In Een daad van liefde Albert Heringa is followed in the years after his stepmother's death, on the way to and during the trial.