For twelve years, the filmmakers documented five children from the St. Georg district of Hamburg. After "Die Kinder von St. Georg - Erste Schuljahre" (2004) covered the period from 1999 to 2004, the former first graders are now portrayed as adolescents in puberty in the period from 2007 to 2011, struggling with their identity, having to cope with setbacks, and discovering new strengths within themselves on the threshold of adulthood.