ONE MILLION MINUTES

Everyone knows it and yet it always gets pushed into the background: you cannot find the really important things in life on everyday to-do lists. From the superficial point of view Wolf (Tom Schilling) and Vera Küper (Karoline Herfurth) are living a fullfilled live with their two children in a lovely flat in Berlin. Wolf is building his career as a scientific advisor in bioderversity for the UN, while Vera mainly taking care about 5-year old Nina (Pola Friedrichs) and 1-year-old Simon (Piet-Levi Busch), manages to work as an architectual engineer whith a focus on sustainability.
Though underneath the surface the young family is overworked in a system that is everything but family-friendly and also increasingly destroys Vera and Wolf’s relationship. When daughter Nina is diagnosed with a fine motor and coordination disorder, the Küper family’s way of life is fundamentally shaken. When Nina says at bedtime one evening: “Oh, Dad, I wish we had a million minutes. Just for the beautiful things, you know?”, Wolf gets an inkling that a million minutes spent together could possibly be much more valuable than a glittering career. And suddenly their daughter’s wish becomes the leitmotif for the whole family.
For a million minutes, 694 days, the Küper family searches for a new, different way of life. Let’s go!  Starting in Thailand and ending in Iceland. Together they discover a healthier everyday life with more time for Nina’s development, but also for every other family member. However, the deceleration that soon sets in and the new, more family-oriented everyday life quickly leads the Küpers onto the trail of the real life goals: norms, traditions and the conditioning of those responsible within the family, Vera and Wolf. The journey, which begins on the outside, must lead to the end of the world in order to arrive there at the innermost core and not only review thought patterns, expectations and role models, but to completely reshape them. Within this journey they realize: Every minute is valuable.