A basic Romeo and Juliet story about two teenagers from different sides of the river, who use each other for their own gains, but end up falling in love. A simple story, told many tomes before, but what's interesting are the values movie, that are opposite to that of a possible Anglosaxon version of the same story.

Germany has a fairly egalitarian society and attaches great importance to well-being as opposed to material gain, and that seeps through. The billionare parents of Isi are obsessed with her getting a college or university degree and oppose her wish to train as a chef at a prestigious course in New York, which of course would have seemed a wonderful idea to American billionaire parents. And Ossi, the working class boxer, needs the money not to buy flashy cars or clothes, but to pay of the loans his mother has taken out to invest in her gas station for an electric charging station. How frugal, environmentally conscious and sensible!

In an American version the uncouth boxer would have been taken to the billionaire world, playing the clash of civilisations in that atmosphere, where he would bring some swagger to be finally tamed and put in a suit. In this movie the billionare girl starts working in the run down burger bar, and learns to appreciate life with little money and not even ideals.

This accumulates in the moment when Isi confronts Ossi about his life, his lack of intellectual ambition, his dire circumstances. He replies: our relationship can never work, because I never felt my life as something of lesser value, but you make me feel that way.

And that makes the final point: his life is not of lesser value. The lack of money is a problem, but that's more of a societal problem of division and opportunity. (In the beginning is a scene where the fairly intelligent Ossi learns that in his school, on the wrong side of the tracks, he'll needs his fists more than his brains.) Money does not equal happiness nor personal development, circumstances do.

So Isi buys the burger bar and plans to work there, with Ossi following his boxing ambitions which are quite clearly nonsense. She wants to build up their life from the ground, and doesn't want to climb as high as her mother, who was of humble beginnings herself.

The side story of Ossi's granddad adapting to life outside of prison by becoming a rapper is hilarious, and deliciously politically incorrect. Both leads are charming and adequate, and the story has enough unexpected turns to avoid the cliches. Germany is not America, und das ist auch gut so.

It's fun to watch, if you're searching for something light. I know both Heidelberg and Mannheim so it was nice to see those cities depicted in the series. Main characters are interesting enough to cheer for them, but it's not a masterpiece. I didn't like the ending,felt it was a bit off.