Robin

Robin is eight when his mother Sabine falls pregnant again. Trying to cope with her son, her pregnancy and her new boyfriend proves too much for Sabine, and Robin is sent to a home. When he returns three months later, the situation has not improved in the slightest. The new boyfriend drinks, his little sister bawls her head off and on top of everything else the two adults are always fighting. One day, a woman from the youth welfare office turns up at the door. Robin is alone at home and his sister starts crying…

Source: 58. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)