Adrian is a wonderful 7-year old Austrian boy with vivid imagination who dreams for exciting adventures and brave heros. His life goes in the underground Salzburg, with a drug-addicted mother who loves him dearly. Although Adrian is surrounded by misery and people whose biggest joy is to take drugs, his childhood is normal and even happy. Helga is a woman, torn apart between her addiction, from one side and her tender dedication to Adrian, from the other. When the authorities, responsible for social care of children, find out about her drug problems, mother and son have to find a way not only to survive but also to stay together.