Yönetmen : Fatih Akın Oyuncular : Sibel Kekilli, Birol Ünel, Meltem Cumbul, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Güven Kıraç Senaryo : Fatih Akın Yapımcı : Mehmet Kurtuluş, Ralph Schwingel

Almanya'da yaşayan 40'lı yaşlarındaki Cahit ile genç Sibel intihardan vazgeçmiş 2 insandır. Psikoloğunun yardımıyla sorunlarını bir nebze de olsa yenmeyi başaran Cahit, Sibel'e yardım etmek ister. Sibel'se çıkış yolunu evlilikte arar ve eşi doğru dürüst tanımadığı Cahit olur. Aynı evde yaşamaya başlayan Cahit ve Sibel arasında kaçınılmaz bir yakınlaşma başlar. In ‘Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for freedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love.