Showing results for "August" in Friendship

25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy. In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future built from the ruins of the past.

The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, the same drugs, and has the same drive to oblivion. Over the course of two decades, Theron and Jake get high, drift apart, and are brought hurtling back together, until a final collision tears them apart forever.

Rico, 23 Jahre, 147 kg schwer, hochintelligent, soziophob, hat mit 15 Jahren die Schule abgebrochen und wohnt seitdem komplett zurückgezogen bei seiner Großmutter in tendenziell prekären Umständen. Parallel lebt er digital in einem aufregenden Computerspiel. Er verachtet die Menschen und was sie aus ihrer Welt gemacht haben. Zaire, 23 Jahre, lebensbejahend, sehr sozial, die neue Pflegerin seiner Oma, reißt Rico ins reale Leben hinein. Sie liebt die Menschen und glaubt an eine lebenswerte Zukunft.