A disconcerting and intense first film by the twins Dominik and Benjamin Reding, following the trajectory of a boy in a crisis of identity. He is in search of his masculinity in a world where all of the male standards have been lost.

     Janosch is tired of his life with the family, impatient to prove that he is now a man, and he seeks out his former school friend Koma. He must base himself on a model, and Koma - now a skinhead, although with no clear vision of what this might, in fact, represent - is happy to have an admirer, someone who will follow him. Koma transforms Janosch into a replica of himself.

     When Janosch, however, meets Zottel, a stranger, proud of being leftist, he romantically changes position and arouses Koma's wrath. The consequences are tragic. Lyrical, but frightening, the film provides evidence of homophobic violence. It is also a technical tour-de-force with a fine sound track and black and white photography that evokes the beauty and balance that Janosch seeks, and the cruelty he will encounter.