Vincent suffers from Tourette’s syndrome, “an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic” (Wikipedia). When his mother dies, his father, a politician in Bavaria, sticks him into an institution of people with mental problems so that his tic gets cured. Now we are in location explored by earlier films such as Rain Main and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The film at times is funny and has a few deep moments, but it also deteriorates into cheesy kitsch. It is also too close the earlier German film The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin), which was a lot better and I recommend you see instead.