汉堡的一名警官殴打了他的女儿，然后又殴打了一名司机，他觉得这名司机很傲慢。当女儿卡拉逃跑时，倒霉的司机里克出于好奇把她接了起来。作为一名无家可归的吉他手，他开着他的旧梅赛德斯车送她去L_贝克，15岁的女孩希望在那里找到她的母亲。不幸的是，这位母亲几年前离开了家，现在已经有一段时间没有住在那里了。为了找到她，卡拉和里克沿着德国北部海岸开始了一次旅行……多丽丝·德雷里用公路电影的惯例讲述了一个年轻女人从一个破碎的家庭长大成人的故事。主人公不仅在路上处理了她糟糕的家境，她还发现自己第一次能够表达她对爱和温柔的需要；这个像男孩一样的少年发现了自己的女性特质。不经意间，几乎是偶然的，看似随波逐流的逃亡者一个接一个地经过一个转折点。同时，这部电影潜移默化但却不可避免地从一部青少年戏剧转向了家庭悲剧。 A police officer in Hamburg beats both his daughter and then a motorist whom he felt was insolent. When daughter Carla runs away, Rick, the hapless driver, picks her up out of curiosity. A homeless guitarist, he drives her to Lübeck in his old Mercedes, where the 15-year-old girl hopes to find her mother. Unfortunately, it turns out that the mother, who left the family years ago, hasn’t lived there for some time now. Hoping to find her, Carla and Rick embark on an odyssey along the northern German coast … Doris Dörrie uses the conventions of the road movie to tell the story of a young woman from a broken home emerging into adulthood. Not only does the protagonist process her bad home situation while on the road, she also finds herself able to express for the first time her need for love and tenderness; the tomboy-esque teenager discovers her own femininity. Casually, almost by accident, the seemingly adrift runaway passes through one turning point after the next. At the same time, the film imperceptibly but inexorably pivots from a teen drama to a family tragedy.