Osdorf

The high-rise estate Osdorfer Born in west Hamburg is regarded as something of a social hot spot. The boys who live here have no more to hang on to other than their sense of identity as members of a ghetto, which provides a common bond between them. Life for young men living in Germany's urban ghettos is characterised by a feeling of being ostracised and a sense of barely having a future. Consequently, they compensate this feeling with a mixture of local patriotism, macho behaviour and crime. But the boys also have doubts. In truth, most of them know that it is a strange world they live in, where a criminal counts more than someone who goes to school. The film does not provide answers; instead, it leaves the audience with the troubling question what could save these boys.