When young Martina takes up a scholarship at the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school, she finds herself caught in the rivalry between the boarders and the "externals" from the local village.
Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. Noah is Jewish and Hakim is Muslim. The tension between the two friends, the religions and the previously friendly families is thus established.
