Banale Tage plot
East Berlin, 1978. Thomas is an apprentice toolmaker. Michael is a high school student. Thomas' father is a worker, while Michael's father is a consultant at the Volksbühne theater. The two teenagers are at odds with their fathers and authorities such as the foreman and the school principal. They rebel against the paternalistic system that does not give young people space to develop and demands conformity. When Michael's father declares a play "subversive" and it turns out to actually expose youth culture, Thomas openly protests. That brings the East German secret police, the Stasi, into play...