After a serious illness, the ten-year-old Mike is finally discharged and allowed back home. But when his mother shows up at the hospital to collect him, she is, as so often, drunk. The Youth Welfare Office is called in: Mike may only return to his mother if she can care for him adequately.
\nMike knows that she drinks too much but no way does he want to be placed with foster parents. After all, he is old enough to take care of himself. So he and his room-mate Vincent, who he is slowly beginning to make friends with, devise a plan that will thwart the Youth Welfare Office. But the things go totally wrong. When finally threatened with accommodation in a children\u2019s home, Mike sees no other way out and absconds. Except no one is at home, because his mother is now on an alcohol detox programme and trying to get her problems under control. When the boy is found again, he has to return to the hospital. But a happy ending is in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20485,"template":"","movie_year":[99],"movie_genre":[629],"movie_cat":[487],"festival":[565],"class_list":["post-20486","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-99","movie_genre-spielfilm-2","movie_cat-film-education-en-2014","festival-2014-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n