Andreas Kannengießer

The 15-year-old Mika is suffering from severe lovesickness. Until he meets Lea - because she is mysterious. And totally deaf. To impress his ex-girlfriend Sandra, Mika goes for the smart "handicapped girl". But Lea has no room for hearing boys in her snail-shell world. Mika’s old friends soon don’t understand him either. Anyone else would give up, but "slo-bro" Mika charges ahead.

Hannelore (65) has been caring for her husband Klaus (69), who has dementia, for four years. She is now at the end of her tether. When her neighbour Günther (65) unexpectedly goes away on a trip, Hannelore simply follows him—leaving her husband alone at home. What Hannelore doesn't know is that Günther has just lost his partner to cancer and wants to take his own life in a vacation home on the coast.

13-year-old Carlos lives in the Barrio - a Nicaraguan shantytown. His greatest wish is to become a "coplero", the poet and lyricist in a Gigantona group. In the face of all resistance, Carlos founds his own Gigantona group, which makes its way to an old poet, in the attempt to get a foreign stipend for their work. As it becomes clear that there is no chance of a stipend Carlos is faced with his greatest challenge - responsibility. —Andreas Kannengiesser

The 15-year-old Mika is suffering from severe lovesickness. Until he meets Lea - because she is mysterious. And totally deaf. To impress his ex-girlfriend Sandra, Mika goes for the smart "handicapped girl". But Lea has no room for hearing boys in her snail-shell world. Mika’s old friends soon don’t understand him either. Anyone else would give up, but "slo-bro" Mika charges ahead.

The 15-year-old Mika is suffering from severe lovesickness. Until he meets Lea - because she is mysterious. And totally deaf. To impress his ex-girlfriend Sandra, Mika goes for the smart "handicapped girl". But Lea has no room for hearing boys in her snail-shell world. Mika’s old friends soon don’t understand him either. Anyone else would give up, but "slo-bro" Mika charges ahead.

Hannelore (65) has been caring for her husband Klaus (69), who has dementia, for four years. She is now at the end of her tether. When her neighbour Günther (65) unexpectedly goes away on a trip, Hannelore simply follows him—leaving her husband alone at home. What Hannelore doesn't know is that Günther has just lost his partner to cancer and wants to take his own life in a vacation home on the coast.

13-year-old Carlos lives in the Barrio - a Nicaraguan shantytown. His greatest wish is to become a "coplero", the poet and lyricist in a Gigantona group. In the face of all resistance, Carlos founds his own Gigantona group, which makes its way to an old poet, in the attempt to get a foreign stipend for their work. As it becomes clear that there is no chance of a stipend Carlos is faced with his greatest challenge - responsibility. —Andreas Kannengiesser