The aging, bald and short -sighted Olivier works as a teacher at the center of social rehabilitation of young criminals. Strictly, but carefully teaches the Plotnitsky craft of boys of the B, including the new one. Five years ago (when he was only eleven) for the murder of the son of Olivier and now transferred to a free settlement just to the center where the hero works. The plot is so implausible and unnatural that any “artistic” solution of the film would immediately turn it into kitsch. Therefore, nothing author, except the script, in this picture, made almost in the style of "dogma", is. The trembling of the camera and the "amateur" installation create a sense of reality.
Director of VIM Wenders (Germany), 1971 joint project of Wenders and German writer Peter Handke (“False Movement” and “Heaven over Berlin”, Wenders also shot according to the scripts of Handka). The film is about alienation with a strange, autistic hero who is somnated through the city.