[3] Seventeen-year-old Phil returns home from summer camp to the secluded Villa Visible, an old mansion where he lives with his mother, Glass, and his twin sister, Dianne.

The family, viewed as eccentric by their remote community, maintains little contact with neighbors, though they share a warm bond with their lesbian friends, Tereza and Pascal.

Upon his return, Phil discovers that a hurricane has ravaged the area, including their garden, and senses tension between Glass and Dianne, who now barely speak to each other or him.

Flashbacks reveal the family’s troubled past: Glass arrived in Germany pregnant from America, never disclosing the twins’ father’s identity.

The production received various public fundings, including money from the Filmfonds Wien and from the representative of the Federal Government for culture and media.

According to van Hoeij, it is a big forte of the film that Erwa shows how teenagers have to struggle with their sexuality, and the director proves that he has understood that, in physical love, less is sometimes more.

Van Hoeij praises the actors Hofmann and Schümann, who portrayed those two boys in an affectionate and tender way, which is as interesting as the fact that those teenagers have to question themselves, due to their sexuality, if they are ever going to be happy.

[11] On the verge of the press conference in the course of the premiere in Moscow, the film was rejected by some journalists and critics as propaganda as non-traditional portrayal of sexual relationships between teenagers that are not allowed to be distributed in Russia.

Kirill Raslogow, the program director of the film festival, had warned his fellow countrymen beforehand: "This movie could shock the audience."

The Austria Presse Agentur (APA) described the problem of the film in Russia: "With this portrayal of society, the director reproduces a downright nightmare of right-conservative Russians who often disqualify Europe as 'Gayrope'.