Synopsis
Ljöscha, 19, a gawky, young man, a bit unkempt, in search of his identity. Although he grew up without a father and was ignored and pushed off by his mother Lena, he still has self-respect and self love. His love for life and his mum Lena, who has already forgotten his name, drives him to who and what his father was and has destroyed the family.
Ljöscha looks up his grandfather and confronts him in his bullheaded and stubborn manner with his past and tells him, that he has got a son.
Nele, 19 a fun loving, quick-witted, young woman. Nele is deaf. Yet she does not feel impaired from life. She knows what she wants. It is not her, but her fellow men having problems understanding her. Everybody should learn sign language, this way they could all communicate with each other. For those, who look at her without understanding, she gets out her pen and paper and helps them to communicate with her.
Nele loves the north sea, its abrasiveness and beauty. She visits the north sea regulary in order to dis and recharge herself. While crossing she notices Ljöscha, she likes his gawky way and spontaneously decides to draw him. She wants to get to know him him but unfortunately he keeps slipping away...
Lena, 19 years old is a striking, young women. Silver tongued, funny and with a sublimal humor. Lena does not study or do any training. She paints. Painting keeps her grounded, is life saving for her, it helps her bear her life in bullet proof glass.
Lena has been abused by her father since she was a small child. Her mother left the family early. She could not bare her helplessness regarding Lena. She left her child alone to be with the abusive father.
Lena develops an increasingg fear of being alone, a feeling of guilt towards her mum and a yearning to be understood and loved. She is in an impossible love relationship with her father.
Lena and her father share a flat. The flat, Lenas bullet proof glass, which she does not leave,in which she does not see or hear anything particularly well, except for the view from her blue window. This is the only thing Lena realizes. She has grown numb. She wears a red elastic band around her wrist, which cuts itself deeply into her skin whenever she feels tension. The pain brings her back to life. Her irrational outbursts of fury, sometimes from nowhere, sometimes as a consequence of pent-up feelings are made of hate, love, disgust, which she feels for her father and her mother, but also self hate and her deep desperation.
Lena lives in her own world, and there is no escaping from it anymore. That's why she's painted her windows blue. She wants to escape her impossible relationship with Leo.
Leo is 39 years old. He is well built, charming, silver tongued but also choleric. He is an artist and carves figures, his favourite is Lena in all positions.
Leo yearns for physical adjacence and tenderness which he could not find with his wife. Very early on he's found all this in his daughter Lena and misuses her love by abusing her.