Rivale (2020)
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Yelizar Nazarenko, Udo Samel, Maria Bruni, Alex Vent
After his grandmother dies, a nine-year-old boy secretly travels from Ukraine to Germany to find his mother—and struggles to regain her attention.
The story
When nine-year-old Roman’s grandmother dies, no one remains to care for him. Hidden in a truck, he travels alone from Ukraine to Germany in search of his mother, Oksana, who left two years earlier to work as a caregiver in a senior’s household. Roman finds her living with Gert Schwartz, a 62-year-old German widower with whom she has fallen in love. Though Roman loves his mother deeply, he is consumed with jealousy and tries by every means to win her attention. His arrival sets up a strained family situation as he competes for a place in his mother’s changed life.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
When nine-year-old Roman’s grandmother dies, there is no one left who can look after him. So, hidden in a truck, he sets off on his own from Ukraine to Germany to find his mother, Oksana, who left two years earlier to work as a caregiver in a senior’s household. Roman does manage to find his mother, but she has fallen in love with a German man, 62-year-old widower Gert Schwartz, and is living with him. Roman, who loves his mother just as much, is consumed with jealousy and fights by every means he can to win her attention.
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