18-year-old Helen (Carla Juri) wants her parents to get back together, has a different idea of hygiene than most girls (she loves all the fluids and smells of her body, even mucus, menstrual blood and earwax) and pushes the boundaries of what most of her friends want sexually, such as going to a brothel (to be fair, her friend Corinna (Marlen Kruse) has a boyfriend that asks her to, well, give him a Cleveland Steamer).
As she shaves herself too quickly, she's cut and has to go to the hospital where she falls in love with a nurse, Robin (Christoph Letkowski) who is quite shy and has never gotten over having his heart broken by another nurse that he works with.
Directed by David Wnendt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Claus Falkenberg, based on the book by Charlotte Roche, this has a heroine who dreams of the childhood that she once lived yet every memory is horrible, such as her jumping into her mother's arms and her mother moving and telling her not to trust anyone, as well as a father who has no interest in anyone.
Obviously that's why she began sleeping with as many people as possible at the age of fifteen - no judgement - and is looking for a world to be part of. That said, to get there, you have to get past a heroine who spends the beginning credit scene playing with her hemorrhoids and then tasting her finger. And despite all that, you start to feel for her, even if she only seemingly cares about herself and hope that she can get past the life that her parents and their selfishness has doomed her to walk.
As she shaves herself too quickly, she's cut and has to go to the hospital where she falls in love with a nurse, Robin (Christoph Letkowski) who is quite shy and has never gotten over having his heart broken by another nurse that he works with.
Directed by David Wnendt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Claus Falkenberg, based on the book by Charlotte Roche, this has a heroine who dreams of the childhood that she once lived yet every memory is horrible, such as her jumping into her mother's arms and her mother moving and telling her not to trust anyone, as well as a father who has no interest in anyone.
Obviously that's why she began sleeping with as many people as possible at the age of fifteen - no judgement - and is looking for a world to be part of. That said, to get there, you have to get past a heroine who spends the beginning credit scene playing with her hemorrhoids and then tasting her finger. And despite all that, you start to feel for her, even if she only seemingly cares about herself and hope that she can get past the life that her parents and their selfishness has doomed her to walk.