or The Sexual Neuroses of our Parents Dora (18) is different: she’s mentally impaired since birth. Being the only child of middle class parents, she’s loved and pampered: especially by her father. At the local train station she’s allowed to help the sensuous Maria sell fresh fruit at the stall and on weekends she spends time with Max and Sara, two other handicapped teenagers. Dora lives, yet she’s not alive: being under heavy medication, she lives the life of a vegetable more than anything else. On her 18th birthday, her mother decides to take Dora off the pills, so that she may finally get to know her real daughter. Their doctor agrees to put a stop to her medication-induced apathy. Dora starts discovering the world: simple things, such as the difference between trousers and skirts, fascinate her. She demands to only wear skirts from now on. Dora’s mother is thrilled: a new companion is blossoming on her side and she thoroughly enjoys the new relationship they have. One day at the fruit stand, a stranger appears. Dora follows him into the public toilets where he has violent sex with her. She gives him the pomegranate that she carries in her work apron. The police soon notice the dishelved young girl walking through the train station; when they question her shortly after, it becomes clear that the violence and the blue bruises don't bother Dora. Her only concern is that she gave him a pomegranate. The police see no reason to press charges. Dora's mother is overcome with rage and grief, she realises that not only has Dora's personality unleashed and blossomed, so has her youthful, problematic sexuality. Dora decides, she wants more sex and thus meets her lover Peter on a regular basis. She soon becomes pregnant after refusing to take the contraceptive pill. Her mother organizes an abortion and it is only later that Dora understands she could have become a mother: now she wants a baby-girl as beautiful as Maria, as smart as her mother and as cheerful as herself. She goes back to her lover and asks him to impregnate her again. Peter plays the game, enjoys having sex with a woman that has a childish sense of reality and shows no tabus. Without a trace of remorse he promises to travel to Vegas with her to get married. But not all that shines is gold. Peter soon vanishes out of her life, her parents decide she must move out, placing her into supervised accomodation. And soon Dora gives birth: not to a pretty clever girl, but to a boy. Will she look into an uncertain future alone, or will Peter and her parents take her back into their lives?		Drama 90 Min. Original version: German Screenplay: Stina Werenfels and Boris Treyer Director: Stina Werenfels Based on the play of: Lukas Bärfuss Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion Producer: Samir & Karin Koch