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In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
Vacation in Berlin. Everyone except ten-year-old Valentina is away. What to do? She wants to make her first movie with a smartphone: A journey to the planet Pax, a planet where everything is good. The shopping cart becomes a spaceship, the bicycle helmet with aluminum foil becomes a spacesuit. During the first take, of all things, Juri, who is new to the neighborhood, gets in her way. As she tries to get rid of him, an angry neighbor shows up who feels disturbed by her noise. Together they flee from his dog. The beginning of a friendship.
Ukraine during the German occupation in 1943. 12-year-old orphan Mitka earns a living in a tavern under a false name by playing music every night for the mainly German guests. He is accompanied in his playing on the violin by the pianist Yegor. Even beyond the music, he tries to be a friend and mentor to the boy. Mitka, however, finds it difficult to accept the budding friendship. This is because none of the people involved has any idea that Mitka belongs to a Jewish partisan movement.
