Jojo was sentenced by the juvenile court. The punishment: painting walls in an old people's home. So Jojo ends up in Leo's room, who doesn't say a word - until it turns out that Jojo isn't guilty at all, but has taken the punishment for someone else. The two's prejudices and expectations begin to crumble and they start to tell each other.
each other. Jojo talks to Leo about friends who aren't really friends at all and finds out: Leo used to be a boxing legend!
They start talking about being excluded, about injustice, about anger and the big question marks that hover over their lives. A friendship develops that challenges Leo and Jojo to jump over their shadows.
"Das Herz eines Boxers" by Lutz Hübner, Hartmann & Stauffacher Verlag, Cologne.