The young Vietnamese girl, Thuy Linh, is forced to assume responsibility for herself and her little sister much too soon. She has taken on board such German virtues as diligence,...

Alexander wants so badly to win a painting competition at school so that he can impress Lotte, the girl he is in love with. After school, Alexander hangs out with his friends,...

Mara, fourteen year-old, sneered by her classmates for getting absorbed by weird daydreams, and dragged by her single mother to strange new age seminars, just wants to be a normal...

Amelie (13) thinks of herself as a tough big-city brat and she probably is indeed the most stubborn girl in all of Berlin. Amelie doesn’t let anyone tell her what to do, least...

Afraid of being left alone as the youngest of the family, Sam begins his own made up aloneness training during his holiday on the Dutch island Terschelling. But by meeting the...

Thirteen-year-old Nelly’ s holiday in Romania takes a very dramatic turn when she accidentally discovers her family’ s secret plan to relocate there. Running away to avoid the...

Paul (12) leaves home with his best friend Max (12) on the first day of summer vacation. Following in the footsteps of Paul’s missing father, the boys venture into the forest of...

The summer holidays have just begun in Brandenburg, but ten-year-old Lea does not go to camp this year with her friends as she normally would. Lately she has been finding the...