Stier

Ralf Rothmann looks back on a youth in the 1970s from the perspective of Kai Carlsen, a Berliner from the back house: a childhood in the Ruhr area, where mining damage shapes the face of the houses and where the rebel Maurer, infected with an incurable heart disease, emerges. Later, Kai Carlsen finds work and a home with Ecki, a former civil engineer and now the operator of Blow up - a meeting place for subculture. As a nursing assistant at the Waldklinikum, he meets the young doctor Hernández, who opens his eyes to the world of art. The reunion with Ecki, the fatherly friend, ends tragically.