In the summer of 1968, the 14-year-old Wolfgang from Osnabrück, who liked to tinker with mopeds, is defiant to his stepfather. When Wolfgang shows his friends the paternal pornography magazine, the latter lets him through a staff member of the Youth Office Osnabrück to a Christian educational center in Freistatt. His mother comforts him and promises to take him back at Christmas. He takes a picture of his mother to Freistatt.