Platzspitzbaby

Michelle Halbheer's mother belongs to the Platzspitz generation; severely addicted to drugs, she neglected and endangered not only herself but also her child. Michelle is barely ten when her parents divorce and she is placed in the care of her heroin and cocaine addicted mother. The following years become so threatening for the girl that she barely survives. The misery, even over the worried father, always penetrates to the outside world. But authorities, doctors, police officers, and randomly involved adults remain inactive. When Michelle finally talks about the unbelievable, she's already a teenager. She's being relocated. But the new start with the foster parents, in the strictly religious environment there, turns into another catastrophe. When Michelle takes her life into her own hands at the age of sixteen, she still does not know what normality means. Something else ever.