Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new environment is difficult in the first place and he has to struggle with the various problems of coming of age, when he falls in love to the school's dream girl Malen.
Marko is in his mid-30s, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days – far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günther with their bourgeois lifestyle. He visits them once or twice a year, mainly to give them a chance to spend a few days with their grandson.