It is 1980 in Neue Vahr Süd, an anything but picturesque council estate in the east of Bremen. For Frank Lehmann, the next six months are not going to be easy. He has just finished his apprenticeship, still lives with his parents and has somehow forgotten to refuse to do military service. Although he manages to move out of his parents’ house after a fight, and into a chaotic shared flat, he is certainly a long way from having found a new home, and Neue Vahr Süd always seems to catch up with him. And while he, still wondering how it all turned out like this, is standing to attention in the barracks, folding his shirts to the regulation A4 size and crawling through the undergrowth, his friends are fighting – for their version of the proletarian revolution, against the military and the arms race, and for the ever-dynamic Sibille, without ever having asked her first if she has an opinion on the matter. Torn between resistance and resignation, Frank Lehmann is in a dangerous position as he struggles by hook or by crook for a dignified existence between two contradictory worlds.
