In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Having been brought up by a variety of different mothers, the young foreign language correspondent Lisa Hellmann now longs for a sense of family security in her adopted home of Barcelona. She may have found this with Emilio de Alvarado's family. The (strictly Catholic) wedding is already planned and the obligatory christening is on the agenda. But then Lisa's old-68 grandmother Ingeborg bursts int...

In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.