After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be worthless. With the help of their neighbors, they embark on a race against time to enter the capitalist world in style.

When Max is caught by his father in a private moment, it has unexpected consequences for the family outing that follows. On the last summer day by the river, the fourteen-year-old is forced to rethink his understanding of masculinity.

One year after Jessie's death, her mother and little sister take in her ex-boyfriend - the boy the whole world secretly blames for her death. When the unlikely trio leave for a trip to Tenerife, for a family holiday that never happened, past and present quietly start to overlap.