14-year-old Emily (Johanna Werner) wants to run away from home after an argument with her parents. Father Mattes (Hannes Jaenicke) suggests an unusual experiment: For one month, the children Emily and Tommy are allowed to manage the household finances and make the family decisions.
After a blow to the head, Gilles wakes up in the hospital. He knows that his wife Lisa caused the injury. The act is the result of years of accumulated desperation and shows the extent of the rift in the marriage. So he decides to fake amnesia for everyone to explore what went wrong in his marriage.
Journalist Jakob Goltz visits his parents at Bodenee for the first time in many years. The encounter with his hard-hearted mother Jonah tears up old wounds in Jacob, who has only sad memories of his childhood. When his wife Madlon plunges into an affair with Jonas estate manager Rudolf, Jacob's...
A violent supermarket incident involving a refugee in East Germany is reenacted in a film studio. Ten citizens observe and comment on the case, which highlights the blurred distinction between civil courage and vigilante justice.
