S2.E16 ∙ Polythemis Returns

A 2nd year student is assigned a handsome new roommate at the start of the school year.

Pressured by their peers, teen couple Raskal and Ole decided to have sex for the first time, and resulted in a clearly unexpected pregnancy. These high schoolers tried to make it their own way, with supports from a gang of misfits.

Leroy (16) is an Afro-German boy who, not only notoriously unlucky, must also battle with an identity crisis born of the fact that he is both a highly cultured, well-mannered German AND black, thus belonging to two minorities. Leroy has a girlfriend, Eva, whose brothers happen to be Neo-Nazi skinheads, Leroy's natural enemies. After some time, and against all odds, Leroy and Eva's brothers have managed to become friends, and one day they ask Leroy to join them, afro and all. Leroy declines and sets off on a long walk through Berlin with his Greek friend Dimitrios. Whilst distributing supermarket leaflets across a dirty, overcrowded city pulsing to a 70s soul-groove, Leroy and "Dimmi" discuss the sorer spots of the German condition human: white foreigners and black Germans, the problem Germans have saying the word "Jew", colored people on tanning beds and Hitler's plan to convert the colors of all German traffic lights to black, red and gold. When Leroy and Dimmi almost get beaten up by hostile skinheads, Eva bravely saves the day and then it dawns on Leroy how he can eradicate fascism from its very core.

Iran, late 70s. Young Emkan falls in love with Maasoum, the mysterious daughter of the owner of the local movie theater. The revolution and the war break out. Maasoum escapes with her family. Emkan, against all, fights for his artistic aspirations and runs after her in times of turmoil. He discovers she is Jewish - A message of peace at a threatening time.

In order not to end up as a lock keeper in the country like his father, 18-year-old Abel wants to go to the USA to become a stuntman. Girlfriend Merle is supposed to come along, but then finds out that she is pregnant.

A young couple, Helen and Chris, have plans to go to university and are faced with an unplanned pregnancy. They have decisions to make about each other and the unborn baby.