Cri­mi­nals, jun­kies, alco­ho­lics: they all had one thing in com­mon: they had been writ­ten off by socie­ty. And they them­sel­ves no lon­ger belie­ved in a new begin­ning. It just see­med too late for that. But then the unex­pec­ted hap­pen­ed: they radi­cal­ly chan­ged their lives. But what is the secret behind it? Find out in their inter­views…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bEW2lEwMJYk

He was full of hat­red for ever­y­thing that took away his free­dom — espe­ci­al­ly the GDR regime. His anger explo­ded in uncon­trol­led vio­lence. As a hoo­li­gan, Olli Schalk got into bloo­dy fights or beat up stran­gers. But then he had a stran­ge encoun­ter in the forest…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wrsJIqYqY28

Gor­da­na Möck­li works as a domi­na­trix to get her hands on drugs. She deals, smug­gles kilos of coca­i­ne and ends up in pri­son. Her body beg­ins to rot intern­al­ly. “Hope­l­ess case” — accor­ding to the doc­tors and aut­ho­ri­ties. But a spe­cial street worker and a dis­tur­bing dream chan­ge ever­y­thing…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IEPoAHgkHJE

Sex, drugs and gambling - this is the milieu in which Luis Gil grew up. His par­ents run seve­ral bars and brot­hels. He wants to sell drugs on a grand sca­le, have power, money and beau­tiful women. Howe­ver, he incre­asing­ly rea­li­zes that it is not he who is in con­trol of the drugs, but they are in con­trol of him. He tri­es in vain to escape the vicious cir­cle…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4fxTCYQo7iQ

Hero­in, coca­i­ne, LSD, alco­hol — Mexx Koch has been sever­ely addic­ted for 28 years. When his girl­fri­end dies of an over­do­se, his last cou­ra­ge to face life fades. He tri­es to kill hims­elf…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pSFToe2ZTto

Eddie Ver­dieck has to beco­me a “tough guy” against his will. Yet he is actual­ly high­ly sen­si­ti­ve. But befo­re he dis­co­vers this, years of suf­fe­ring full of drugs, Sata­nism and human dis­ap­point­ments pass.