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The seven-year-old Adrian has a childhood in the extraordinary milieu of a drug scene on the edge of an Austrian city, and a mother between caring for him and drugs. In spite of all this, it is for him a guarded childhood, the best of all worlds. He is not an unhappy child, Helga is a loving mother, plays soccer with him, tells him magic tales, encourages him. Until the outside world can no longer be locked out. Helga knows she has to be clean not to lose her son forever. But she must defeat her own demons ...