Karma Cowboy

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.

Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

Amidst sweating attacks, sex escapades, existential fears and the unsuccessful fight against the signs of the times, four women search for happiness and find themselves.