Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a writing coach to Hugo Drowak, who has long since lost his luck and lives alone in a run-down tower block.
Luna Wedler
Lena
Karl Markovics
Hugo Drowak
Lars Eidinger
Amtsleiter
Jan Bülow
Marlon
Dominique Pinon
Edgar
Saga Agnes Susanna Sarkola
Ana
Nikolai Gemel
Hugo Drowak (young)
Bettina Stucky
Lore
Christopher Buchholz
Oberbürgermeister
Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a writing coach to Hugo Drowak, who has long since lost his luck and lives alone in a run-down tower block.
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
