Story
The world of 16-year-old Sebastian (Linus Moog) is surrounded by forests, fields, and the country roads of a small town in the midst of an unrelenting, sultry summer. Days are spent studying at school, and in the evenings, he meets up with friends by the lake, smokes pot, drinks beer, and dreams with his new girlfriend Sarah about a future far from the confines of the countryside.
When Sebastian’s father Bernd (Oli Bigalke) and his mother Vanessa (Annika Kuhl) announce to him and his little sister Lilli (Marlena Strawe) that they will be taking in a boy named Kolja (Aurel Klug), everything changes in an instant. The children are left speechless when they learn that Sebastian has a brother — a brother who grew up in the city with Sebastian’s biological mother, whom he has never met, and who is now, after her death, moving in with them.
When 15-year-old Kolja becomes the newest member of the family just days later, Sebastian’s life is turned upside down, and the family becomes the talk of the small town. The quiet, handsome Kolja seems to captivate everyone around him. Sebastian doesn’t know how to handle the situation with his new brother, as they feel both like strangers and yet somehow connected.
Kolja quickly adapts to the family, becomes popular at school, and excels at sports. The girls in the small town are all infatuated with him. Weeks later, when the brothers are home alone, with no way to avoid each other, something happens that Sebastian neither anticipated nor understands: the two brothers unexpectedly grow closer, and this closeness turns into a kiss.
What follows is an emotional rollercoaster that shakes Sebastian and his family out of their small-town routine and into uncharted territory.