Der Fall Bruckner (2014)

Katharina Bruckner, 50, has to deal with many serious cases in the youth welfare office. She is also under stress at home: she sees her husband, a surgeon, arm in arm with a younger woman. And her daughter, who has to go to Marrakesh for work, unceremoniously throws her grandson on her. In this situation, the school psychologist Schubert asks her for help: the well-known architect Bremer came to see him at school with her seven-year-old son because of his overactivity. The boy seems scared, claims that the Bremer isn't his mother at all, and suddenly seems to have disappeared. Katharina gets involved with little Joe and gains his trust. But the mother refuses any influence and even attacks Katharina publicly, in which she reveals a stroke of fate in her past: She, Katharina, wanted to compensate for the former death of her own seven-year-old son with her actions. The case is removed from her, she stands aside until traces of abuse are actually found on Joe. Katharina has been rehabilitated and takes care of showing mother and child a common perspective.