Charlotte's life seems like the ordinary life of a middle-class woman: work, child from her first marriage, evenings with a new partner. But she fails to establish warm relations with her loved ones. After one strange night meeting, Charlotte decides to radically change the situation.
My father died under obscure circumstances when I was just one year old – one of the millions of Russian men who died too soon in the nineties. Why were those years in Russia so deadly? After 26 years, I want to get to the bottom of this mystery.
In Germany and Russia, people drink the same amount of pure alcohol: ten liters per capita per year. Two Germans and two Russians are “functioning” young alcoholics. All four are trying to stop drinking. Drinking, however, is so woven into our everyday lives that we no longer even notice it: As long as we function, we drink. And as long as we drink, we function. How can we break out of this vicious circle?
