Joachim is a 7-year-old boy whose father is the director of a large psychiatric hospital in Germany. The kid is used to living with the patients —to Joachim, they are like family and are much nicer to him than his older brothers. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks. Based on the autobiographical book by Joachim Meyerhoff.

Presented in the Generation 14plus section at the Berlin International Film Festival.