In A Children’s Visit, Gudrun Pausewang introduces the underdeveloped world by using a middle aged German couple enjoying their holidays in the company of her daughter, married to an important Latin-American businessman. The couple is enjoying the luxury and colours of a country whose language they do not understand and, because of several circumstances, they will end staying on their own in an opulent mansion for 48 hours…
Leena and her family move to violet house. “It seems to me that violet is such a mysterious colour”, she thinks. Her first year living in the new house will be a difficult time, but also a beautiful time, full of secrets. She meets Birgit, her neighbor, who stutters when she feels blue or self conscious. But Leena gets along with her, until Birgit tells her a secret that will test their friendship.
Summer of 1936. War has just started and Jon arrives in Garraiceta, at the home of his uncle, the lighthouse keeper. He will spend a year living there, a year in which he will see his life and his environment changed. He will meet love and hate, friendship and treason, the big things and the lowest things regarding human being, together with the suffering and hopes of the people from his village.
In Meriting, an idyllic little town in South Africa, a terrible event happens: the body of a dead young lady is found in a waste ground. Miss Diko, english teacher at the local high school and choirmaster assistant, very appreciated by all the students, has been brutally murdered. The searching for the murderer begins. Suspicion and speculation spread and everyone’s life will be different.
Nickel, an Austrian girl, takes advantage of her high school holidays to visit her English grandmother, who is in a hospital for terminal cancer illnesses. What was supposed to be a short stay turns to be several weeks long, and she exposes herself to multiple and contradictory feelings, caused by her cohabitation with patients, relatives and the staff of the clinic.
Racist graffiti appear on a wall at the high school Fran goes to. That provokes Fran and her classmates, who try to figure out how to unmask the offenders. In a given night, when Fran and her gang are hanging out, Aser, the Arab classmate, is brutally assaulted by a group of neo-Nazis.