When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

A bittersweet coming-of-age story set in an unconventional 1980s household where a boy finds unexpected kinship with psychiatric patients while navigating family dysfunction and the painful disillusionment of growing up.

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...