Marie Kaufmann has to face an unusual interview that decides not only her own fate.

A disaster-movie made in Germany.

A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.

You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no choice but to move back into his old childhood room. Three generations under one roof: a chance for reconciliation – or a total disaster?

When his parents go away and he has to stay behind alone with an unloved housekeeper, a boy retreats into a dream—into a fairy-tale adventure story like something out of "1001 Nights," in which people from his everyday life reappear as fairy-tale characters. Every night, Lippel dreams the dream a little further until it reaches a happy ending, thereby also solving the problems of his everyday life...