Esther Preußler

Cem and his five best friends have been a close-knit community since childhood. For him, they are his true family. But Cem is changing. He becomes more brutal and harder, threatens his friends and terrifies their relatives. After a stay in a psychiatric ward, he does not take the prescribed medication. Threats of violence and aggressive outbursts become more and more frequent. What happens inside him remains incomprehensible to the outside world. Only with Lara is he different. His world is alien to her, which is perhaps the reason why he likes her so much. Cem's friends are torn between their loyalty to their childhood friend and their fear of the ever-increasing danger he poses. At some point, this fear becomes so great that it is unleashed in a brutal act of vigilante justice.

Nina, a young actor, returns to the Ruhr region for her grandmother’s funeral. Tensions surface between her and her mother. The noises of a small town fill the eloquent silences in the complex mother-daughter relationships explored in this endearing film.

Thirty years after the Yugoslavian war and the fall of communism, workers from the ex-YU countries find themselves again in the same "bus". But this time not over communist utopian ideals, but under capitalist reality. They are all seasonal workers on a road towards a better future and prosperity, their new Promised Land - Germany. And just when it seems that all the hope on this journey is gone, the Saviour appears to help them all.