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In this entertaining and joyfully absurd children's comedy, an ordinary family wins Willfried, a very large white stallion, in a raffle and are then at a loss about what to do with him, since they live in a small apartment in a Berlin housing project. After the ad agency finishes their spectacular photos of the family with Willfried in the courtyard of the building, they leave and the family tethers the horse outside. But it starts to rain, so poor Willfried is brought inside and gets nervous on the stairs. Things go from bad to worse when the family finds out the ad agency will not take the horse back. The family brings him (illegally) by train to the country home of a friend, at least for the summer. But then what do they do?