How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth birthday, but with an operation looming, Linda nonetheless feels a deep need to spend what might be her last weekend with her two sisters: Katharina who is older, and Clara who is younger than her. Linda must use their journey, which begins at their family’s weekend house and ends in Paris, to examine the ways in which her family has been fundamentally affected by her illness; she must also consider how much she can expect from herself and her sisters – faced as they are with the possibility of her death.
Esta é a trágica história de Jacob (Oskar Bokelmann), um menino de onze anos que cresce em uma família de classe trabalhadora. O alcoolismo coloca sua mãe em um hospital psiquiátrico, e seu pai, desesperado por sua incapacidade de educar o filho, suicida-se na sala de casa. Temendo ter que ir para um orfanato, Jacob tenta esconder a morte de seu pai. Agora, capaz de fazer coisas mais livremente, começa a desenvolver hábitos diferentes dos de seu pai.
Passport Forger Ricki must appease a principal Rickis parolee sister Jenny and the German-Russian Mitja should help. But everything turns out differently: The outsider Jenny and Mitja discover their common ground - and a lot more ... The delicate and excellently staffed love story gets under your skin.
