Spring 1995: After the open drug scene in Zurich was dissolved, eleven-year-old Mia and her mother Sandrine move to an idyllic little town in the Zurich Oberland. But the new home is no paradise for Mia. Because Sandrine is heavily addicted to drugs and should never have been given custody. Mia takes refuge in a fantasy world with an imaginary friend. She talks to him in the lonely hours and makes fantastic plans for an island life with her mother, away from drugs. In a children's gang whose members come from similarly difficult backgrounds, Mia also finds a kind of substitute family and, increasingly, the strength to rebel against her all-ruling mother.