Hönow’s Enlightenment

A flat tire, and the date is getting closer: Martin and his daughter have a date with Mama at the playground. But she prefers to party with her friends at the Spree, like there would be no pandemic. Soon summer will arrive in Berlin.

The carefree lifestyle vacation of Désirée, her white lover Elias and her gay friend Sal turns into a journey of self-discovery in the desert. Désirée’s mother has cut her off and gets them thrown out of the vacation home with pool. In the barren landscape of Fuerteventura, the friends move around as if on an empty field in search of meaning. They desire each other, challenge each other, slip into new roles. A game with the overarching triangle of class, race and gender.

For Fabian, it's all a game: finding straight men who are curious, taking them home, undressing them one piece at a time. For Martin, everything is a health hazard. Until he meets Fabian.

Toy boy, boy toy or more boy than toy? Levi and Sarah have a casual love affair that is more, but also less than that. Luckily, there's the shared flat with the mates.

Sanya hires an escort to explore her queer needs under the guise of heteronormativity. Caught in her own suppression, she weaves a complex web of relationships, in which she leaves nothing to chance. Various characters and their viewpoints are brought in to fight out Sanya's identity conflict.

The door slams shut behind him, the goal is clear: he urgently needs to pee. If only it weren’t for the others and the way they look at him. The noise, the pressure, the self-consciousness. A journey from the urinal to the cubicle.