"My father may sometimes have drunk away our last money in some dive, he may have beaten my mother bloody more than once: I always wanted him to stay. But to be different."
Kaiserslautern in the 1990s: Christian Baron tells the story of his childhood, his violent father and his depressive mother. He describes what it means to grow up in poverty in this wealthy country. How it feels, as a small boy, to be on the receiving end of male violence. What it means, as a teenager, to escape your class. What remains of all those memories. And how he managed to find his own way.
A television film by SWR and BR based on the novel by Christian Baron.
Left to right: André Eisermann as Grandpa Willy with his on-screen daughters Katharina Heyer, Svenja Jung and Mercedes Müller, as well as son-in-law Leonard Kunz and his children Thurid Charlotte Funck, Camille Loup Moltzen and Len Blankenberg.
Production: Saxonia Media
Director: Marc Brummund
Casting: Mai Seck