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Young student Lene is standing at the train station; she must decide whether to take the train back to Berlin where she lives or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides--the place she left in anger many years ago. 'Hierankl' is the name of a Bavarian "Bergbauernhof", i.e., a solitary farm in the mountains with nothing else around but Alps, cows, and nature. Lene returns home to her beloved father Lukas, her rejecting mother Rosemarie, her brother Paul, and a dark, sinister farmhand. She walks through the places of her childhood and feels better. Things get better yet when Götz, a long-missed friend of her father's, arrives to celebrate Lukas' 60th birthday. Despite their significant age difference, Lene and Götz are attracted to each other, and they have a good time. But the day of celebration that should have been, turns into family day of reckoning, and more than one well-kept family secret is revealed.

Louk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace.

From 1944 to 1990 Albania suffered from the dictatorship of Hoxha, which turned Albania into an extremely isolationist, Stalinist, anti-revisionist and communist state. At that time, the communists, currently three million people, built 750,000 bunkers. The bunkers are everywhere: in cities, yards, cemeteries and playgrounds across the country. After communism, the bunkers were used in different ways by the albanian citizens: they became pizzerias, bars, museums and hostels. The bunkers are used symbolically in the film, to report what is left of the communist dictatorship.

Charlotte's middle-class patchwork family life seems relatively ordinary, but her attempts to make a real connection with her fellow human beings are unsuccessful. After a bizarre nightly encounter, she decides to make a radical change. What options remain if you have landed in the wrong life?

Tom wants to throw a surprise party for his best friend Anna, since he's a bit in love with her. Unfortunately, the bar has messed up his reservation - and the only room available at short notice is the phone booth in the backyard. Tom tries everything to throw the "best party of the year" anyway. But the cell is too small, the bar's rules are too absurd and Anna is far too difficult to impress. Tom realizes: The right mindset doesn't help at all. A film about great ambitions in confined spaces.