About a Girl (2014) Plot Summary Explained

Charleen is a 15 years old and obsessed with death. She exclusively listens to music by dead artists, collects photographs of roadkill animals and has an internship by the coroner. As a rebellious idea, she decides to kill herself and puts the hairdryer in her bathtub. Her suicide attempt fails because her best friend Isa calls. Charleen awakes in the hospital and is suddenly the center of attention, after she just wanted her peace. Her mother Sabine, her estranged father Jeff, her mothers new boyfriend Volker, her grandmother Emmi and her friend Isa, all ask her worried questions. On top of that Charlenn has to undergo therapy with the odd psychologist Dr. Frei and her family gets questioned by a woman from the youth welfare office.

At the therapist Charleen meets her classmate Linus. Slowly a friendship develops between them resulting in their first kiss. Suddenly Charleens new won courage gets tested: Linus backs down from her, she and Isa have a big fight and her beloved grandmother dies. These events show Charleen, that life is a gift that one should not throw away. She and Isa make up and she kisses Linus a second time.