Die Kindheit des siebenjährigen Joachims verläuft anders als die seiner Mitschüler: Als Sohn des Leiters einer Psychiatrie wächst er zusammen mit seinen Geschwistern auf dem Klinikgelände auf. Sowohl Joachim als auch sein Vater Richard schätzen dabei die Gesellschaft der Patienten oft mehr als die der "normalen" Leute. Joachims Mutter hingegen sehnt sich nach einem ganz anderen Leben. Als sich die Eheprobleme verschärfen, muss Joachim erkennen, dass Familie ein fragiles Konstrukt ist.
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...
Figlio di un noto psichiatra, Josse cresce nella grande clinica diretta dal padre. Con il passare degli anni si rende conto che quello che ai suoi occhi sembra un mondo perfetto in realtà nasconde dolori e tensioni che pian piano emergono. Tratto dall'autobiografia omonima di Joachim Meyerhoff, presentato al Festival di Berlino 2023.
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