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.
as Waller Collien
as Julian Collien
as Konrad Gorny
as Edeltraud Gorny
as Herbert Lippek
as Pfarrer Stürwald
as Frau Morian
as Onkel Jupp
as Marusha
as Liesel Collien
as Sophie Collien
as Lehrer Stoitzner
as Jonny
as Karl Maronde
as Der Dicke
as Frau Kalde
as Kumpel