Once through Offenbach in search of himself. Charlie first googles the pronoun thing.
What does it mean, "choose your own pronoun"?
By the time Charlie finds out there seems to be a mismatch between her gender assignment and how she feels, we've seen a whole lot of other things.
Unpaid utility bills, gang life, constrained adults.
Offenbach, however, only to a limited extent.
But still: After the most beautiful corpses in the most beautiful Taunus villages and the coolest bank employees in the tallest skyscrapers, a Frankfurt film production company, the U 5, with a director who was born in Wiesbaden, Kerstin Polte, has now gone to Offenbach to collect authenticity there.
In a housing estate that nobody there would call “Platte”, like ZDF Neo is now doing for the six-part series “Becoming Charlie”.
But it doesn't matter, the friends around Charlie have all sorts of backgrounds, Nikolas goes "pump", Charlie seeks peace of mind by writing rap songs and drives food deliveries across Mainbrücken with the Bonanza wheel.
"Becoming Charlie" gathers plenty of stereotypes to quickly tell the story of Charlie's search for identity between a very young pregnant ex-boss friend, a lesbian aunt and a mother addicted to shopping, as well as camera games ranging from text overlays to shaking effects.
Or rather from the beginning.
But it is an attempt: After lesbian love, love in general and childhood friendships, a non-binary young main character has also arrived in mini-series format with "Becoming Charlie".
And Offenbach too.