Johanna Aust

PETRA & PETER is a documentary drama about consequences of both alcoholism and adoption for two very different siblings. They are grown up and now living separate lives. But they have one thing in common - they both want life to be something else.

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.