The Smile of the Monsterfish

Malte lives with his alcoholic father in his hometown of Ahlbeck, a vacation resort near the Polish border on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom and works in a fish bar and earns a little extra on the side smuggling cigarettes over the Polish border. He wants to leave this place. The sooner the better. But two things are holding him back: his father, an alcoholic, and the return of his sister with his nephew – all of them demanding his attention and help. And there’s Annika, a beautiful girl vacationing on the island, who Malte would like to devote his attention to ...