Rückenwind von vorn (2018)

Charlie is a young schoolteacher at an elementary school. Until recently, she had enjoyed her life as a carefree young woman with no responsibilities. She and her best friend promise to travel somewhere in the world, and Charlie then becomes intent on traveling to South Korea. Over time, the young woman and her boyfriend try to be happy and start a family, but Charlie does not want children and even secretly takes the birth control pill. One of the young teacher’s colleagues is an adventurer who is planning a culinary trip to the Balkans, where he will collect recipes for a cookbook. Charlie has a demanding job, and her beloved grandmother falls ill, making her life more difficult. As time passes, she misses her old life even more, when all she did was have fun. Her best friend gets in touch with her, announcing that she is backpacking through Asia and hopes they can visit South Korea together. Charlie and her boyfriend Marco split up, leaving the young woman even more beside herself. She goes on a short trip with her grandmother and her colleague Gerry, and they have a good time. Charlie, her grandmother, and Gerry become good friends, but Charlie’s grandmother is diagnosed with cancer. The young woman continues going to work at the school and learns that Gerry is leaving on a permanent trip. Impulsively, Charlie wants to go with him, but in the end she stays in her ordinary life.