How is a story born? And how does it become a film through the eyes of children?

When 12-year-old Alma discovers that her father's company plans to demolish the playground, she gets determined to save green areas.

12-year-old Ben has just hit puberty and suddenly his weight's a problem – for him and for everyone else.

A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination. The girls have one thing in common: they have all fled their homelands in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kurdistan and Romania, seeking peace in a quiet German provincial town. But perhaps they have more in common than the painful experience of having fled and having to find themselves in a new and foreign culture. Through encounters with inspiring female artists, the girls learn to share their stories and dreams with each other, and to give precious glimpses of what is hidden deep inside them.

Lying on the bunk bed in the children’s home, eleven-year-old Lu talks dreamy-eyed about her mother. Karina, she says, is a famous Hollywood actor who smells of oranges, talks to the stars and does her own stunts.

Two children brave Serbian snipers to collect snow for water during the Siege of Sarajevo in 1994.

Emmanuelle is training on her stationary bike but she can’t get her mind off the image of Laura. The more she pedals, the more her memories turn to desire.

Today Tony will audition for acting school. Stephen, his best friend and scene partner, never shows up. Failing to get another volunteer, Tony decides to cut all ties with the traitor…

The girl has lived in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has been dreaming of leaving forever for a perfect world called Abroad.