Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...

• ARD Degeto
• BR
• Nadja Uhl
• Axel Prahl
• Hannelore Elsner
• Dagmar Manzel
• Merab Ninidze
• Katharina Thalbach
• Maria Simon
• Richy Müller