Parents and daughter come to an agreement: if Lilly really crams from now on, the parents will fully participate in climate protection. Now only fresh food is cooked at home, washed with lavender instead of washing powder, cycled to work. The lawn mower is shut down – and instead two goats are purchased. So far so good. But there are six arduous weeks ahead on the way to a climate-neutral life. Mama Nina and Papa Martin are soon looking for secret exceptions to the new set of rules and get caught up in endless discussions about their previously carefree life and about the future, as environmentally friendly life as possible.
Director Tomy Wigand (70, “Never Too Late”) tells of this form of a new togetherness quite quickly in his entertaining social comedy, which unfortunately turned out to be mostly harmless and basically doesn’t really hurt anyone. There is too much slapstick and not enough seriousness for that. A little rapping is allowed, and finally a few cherished habits from the comfort zone have to be accepted. But the old-timer is allowed to stay.
Tanja Wedhorn (51, “Fritzie – Heaven must wait”) plays the full-time owner of an agency that places hospital staff and fully supports her film daughter. Götz Schubert (59, “Wolfsland”), as a family man and chief physician, initially found it much more difficult with the reunification, but was then increasingly convinced that they had to get out of their comfortable feel-good bubble.
As a married couple, both come to the conclusion in this film that they simply need more time for each other. That has absolutely nothing to do with saving the climate. But without Wedhorn and Schubert this film would be – with an unnecessarily raised index finger – hard to bear. Be that as it may: If more parents would start to really listen to their children, then maybe something would be gained. Not just for the climate.
