Adolf Winkelmann Filmproduktion

The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

Katlewski is in his early 20s and a miner from Recklinghausen. He no longer realizes his marriage to his wife and the prosperity they have achieved.

Adolf Winkelmann maneuvers through Kassel’s shopping district with a Bolex camera strapped to his body, filming himself and the attention he attracts.