Charleen está a punto de cumplir dieciséis años y lo ve todo negro, negro, negro. Fan de Kurt Cobain, pesimista y obsesionada con la muerte, un día se harta y decide intentar ponerle fin a todo. Por suerte, no lo consigue. Pero a partir de ese momento las cosas empiezan a cambiar. Una madre preocupada, una mejor amiga que no te entiende, un psicoterapeuta que parece un loco peligroso, un padre rockero que te abandona, una clase llena de idiotas, el friqui del colegio que se enamora de ti y a lo mejor no es tan friqui como aparenta… Todo parece ponerse de acuerdo para apartar a Charleen de su angustia adolescente, descubriéndole que la vida merece ser vivida… y que hasta puede ser más divertida que la muerte.
Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this occasion leaves Thomas Weidmann his girlfriend and flees because of his botched university career from the city of Berlin back to his native village. At the party, he meets Kerstin Werner, whose life has just come out of joint - her marriage is broken and her husband Jürgen on the jump to another, younger woman.
After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver, who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not easy for Achim to get used to an adolescent around the house, especially since Sven hardly speaks to him. But Sven does well in school, and Achim hopes that time will bring them closer together. It is Achim's girlfriend Julia who first senses that something is wrong with Sven. Why, she wonders, does he always hang around with young boys? Why does not he have any friends his own age? She suspects that he is gay. The truth, however, is somewhat more nuanced - and chilling: Sven has pedophile tendencies. Proof is soon found on videos that shock and sicken Achim. Sven himself is shattered and regrets his actions. Julia suggests therapy, but Achim is convinced that he and Sven can handle this together. But he is wrong. Though Sven practically begs his father to lock him up in his room, Achim has confidence in his son.
