From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche.
Robby screwed up. And because he is afraid of going home, he escapes head over heels into the wood. But there are living some dark 'friends', who are just waiting for such a young desperate boy who get lost in the wood! The Magician Stefan wants to have Robbies childhood and the bad-tempered robber-chief sneaks through the wood with his machete. No wonder that Robby is in big trouble very soon.
