Melisa Erkurt and her parents moved to Austria from Bosnia when she was a child. She studied and now works as a teacher and journalist. She’s made it – but she’s an exception. Because at the end of a school year, she knows that the majority of her pupils will never speak German well enough to change their fate – and their fate is predetermined. A generation of children is growing up in Germany and Austria without language or self-esteem, and to whom no one listens to because they cannot articulate themselves. While others discuss »culture clash« in the classroom, Melisa Erkurt lends her voice to the losers of the educational system. It is not these pupils who need to change, but the school system which needs to break new ground.