When a 9-year-old girl discovers that her mother works as a prostitute at night, she tries to escape their morbidly symbiotic relationship in a bold move.

Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside. While caring for her mother, Mia spends time with her imaginary friend and a gang of local teenage misfits. These friendships finally give her the strength to rebel and break free from her abusive mother.

15-year-old Selma feels crushed – by her mother's expectations, by those of her Catholic Swiss village, and ultimately by her own. On the night before a religious procession, she meets a group of teenagers hidden in the dark of the local gymnasium.