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Benni, age 9, bounces among institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother--who cannot handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired, Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.

Love story of a speaking skills teacher and her student.

The movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Professor Bernd Neubauer seems to be happily married. He wants a house with his wife Lena. He also wants a child with his lover, Melanie.

About a group of old colonial Mennonites in northern Argentina - women, men and children who, as the descendants of Germans who emigrated 500 years ago, live in a strictly conservative religious community that rejects modernity.

Johanna doesn't find any friends. Not in the lecture hall, in the cafeteria or in the student club. That's why she creates a lie: she has cancer. Had she known what she was doing, she would rather have remained invisible forever.

Katharina Bruckner, 50, has to deal with many serious cases in the youth welfare office. She is also under stress at home: she sees her husband, a surgeon, arm in arm with a younger woman. And her daughter, who has to go to Marrakesh for work, unceremoniously throws her grandson on her. In this situation, the school psychologist Schubert asks her for help: the well-known architect Bremer came to see him at school with her seven-year-old son because of his overactivity. The boy seems scared, claims that the Bremer isn't his mother at all, and suddenly seems to have disappeared. Katharina gets involved with little Joe and gains his trust. But the mother refuses any influence and even attacks Katharina publicly, in which she reveals a stroke of fate in her past: She, Katharina, wanted to compensate for the former death of her own seven-year-old son with her actions. The case is removed from her, she stands aside until traces of abuse are actually found on Joe. Katharina has been rehabilitated and takes care of showing mother and child a common perspective.