五个朋友在德国一个偏僻的地方长大，在即将完成学业之际，他们面临着重大的人生抉择——是留下，还是离开小镇去寻找广阔的天地。他们深入挖掘、了解彼此，却又若即若离；他们彼此相爱，却也爆发争执。影片虽是常见的青春和成长议题，但这部导演处女作以复古的画幅比例与独特的视角切入，辅以不落窠臼的角色塑造，用暴力、爱和孤独的碎片铸成万花…

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older …