22 Bahnen

Tilda’s days are tightly scheduled: she studies, works at the supermarket, looks after her little sister Ida and, on bad days, looks after their mother too. The three of them live in the saddest house on Fröhlichstraße in a small town that Tilda hates. Her friends are long gone, living in Amsterdam or Berlin, only Tilda has stayed put. Because someone has to be there for Ida, earn money, bear the responsibility. There are no fathers worth mentioning, her mother is an alcoholic. One day, however, things start to change: Tilda is offered a doctorate in Berlin, and there is a flash of a future that promises freedom. And Viktor shows up, the older brother of Ivan, with whom Tilda used to be friends. Viktor, who, like her, always swims 22 laps. But just as Tilda is about to believe that everything might turn out all right, the situation at home spirals out of control.