Ilona Mira Frehner

A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.

Unsatisfactory final grades and no job opportunity in sight. Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey. He escapes into the night and lets himself drift. A summer’s night, in which he loses the familiar and the new lies in the shadows on the horizon.