Kuckuckszeit (2007)

Claudia and Jens live happily and contentedly with their children, Katja and Max, in the small town of Barstedt. Jens runs a small construction company, while Claudia is living her dream as a housewife who has nothing to worry about apart from the household and the two children. But everything starts to go wrong when Jens’s company becomes insolvent. The bank stops releasing money, and their joint account is frozen. As was bound to happen, the two of them no longer know how they can pay for their own living expenses, let alone those of their children. Jens is unable to cope with the situation physically and is admitted to hospital with a heart attack. Now Claudia is completely on her own and even improvises as the manager of the small construction company. But nothing helps: Claudia can no longer prevent the construction company from going bankrupt either. In the end, Claudia and Jens lose everything. They also have to sell their home and, as a result, move with the children into subsidized housing. This decline in the quality of life they were accustomed to puts their marriage to a severe test. Claudia now works as a sales assistant, while Jens is not really sure what he is supposed to do with himself all day.