The 17 year old schoolgirl Damla, whose name means “Droplet” in English, lives with her third generation Turkish family in Berlin's Neukölln district.

She gets help with her homework once a week at a counseling center for Turkish girls and women. The conflicting social expectations she has to deal with puts young women like Damla under enormous pressure. They are expected to fulfill family expectations and respect rules that stem from their culture of origin. They search for a personal identity that can somehow balance the restrictive role models offered by traditional culture while they participate in the quickly evolving world of today.