Gleich

'Gleich' tells the story of a little boy named Kellen who hasn't spoken since her mother died. Kellen has an introverted personality and he always isolates himself from the rest. This is why his father makes the decision of traveling to El Hierro Island in Spain from Dresde, the German city where he lives with his son.

Kllen's father is hoping that during the months that the family will spend in Spain, all of his son's problems will disappear. An old friend marriage who lives in the island receives them in their own home. However, the couple formed by Alaric and Ebba had problems with them in the past, that's why betrayals reappear in the house that they now share.

When Kellen meets Manuel, an old man with intellectual disability and a psychic age of 10 years old, a beautiful friendship blossoms between them. Kellen has a complicity with Manuel that he doesn't have with anyone else, because their relationship goes way beyond words. Without the necessity of speaking, Kellen finds a new friend and an ally with whom he'll live a few unforgettable months.

The movie is written and directed by Jeniffer Castañeda García, based on her own novel, and starred by Sergio Hernández Hernández, José Luis Madariaga, Aida Ballmann, Morad Azzaaoui and Nieves Bravo. A story about a true friendship that gets over communication barriers.