Marc Weinmann

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.

Young Tom experiences daily daydreams of how he would like to act in certain situations if he had a little more courage. Unintentionally, this happens one day at school and he does exactly what he imagined. Tom suddenly has a completely different school experience - From hero to failure.