Versteckte Fallen

Claudia and Georg Rattey, a married couple, have everything what people in their mid-thirsties might wish for: a car, a farmhouse for vacations on the weekends, and their son Oliver. But their contentedness does not turn into happiness but into an inner void: Claudia and Georg have nothing left to say to each other and just live alongside each other. One day, they discover a ten-year old burglar in their half-finished vacation home. For them, this diversion comes just at the right time. The boy, Frank Dobalt, has run away from a children′s home and was hiding in the vacation home. Out of pity, the Ratteys want to grant the boy several days of vacation. Also, they want to provide a playmate for their own son. But to get the permission of the children′s home, they also have to put up Frank′s twelve-year old sister Simone. But the children′s stay turns out to be far more conflict-ridden than expected. The children behave rather aggressive instead of integrating themselves into the well-ordered family life. The problems in the marriage of the Ratteys become evident; and furthermore, the couple learns that their domicile formerly belonged to Frank′s and Simone′s parents. The tensions keep increasing until Frank sets the house on fire. In the end, the Ratteys stand in front of smouldering ruins of their only seemingly perfect life.

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