Freaks: You're One of Us

As a young girl, Wendy (Cornelia Groschel) caused some unusual trouble at school, angrily throwing a large desk through a building wall. She's the primary "freak" in FREAKS – YOU'RE ONE OF US, but she's long been unaware of her unusual abilities, because ever since that incident, her power and anger have been controlled by medication and "therapy." Now an adult, she's a fry cook at Chop Heaven with an abusive boss and a low salary, living with her husband and their young son, trying to pay the bills. One day, Marek (Wotan Wilke Mohring), a disheveled man, approaches her on the street and explains that she's "one of us," part of a group of people with secret superpowers being suppressed by authorities. The revelation changes her life. Her awkward young co-worker Elmar (Tim Oliver Schultz) is also on the meds, suppressing his power to generate electricity at will. While Marek wants to hide from the authorities and Wendy wants to assert her powers to help herself and others, Elmar is a disturbed, vengeful opportunist who runs around in a superhero costume. He doesn't hesitate to shock people, even lethally, if they get in his way. The violent damage he leaves in his path alerts the authorities and puts Marek and Wendy in danger. When the trio try to release other "freaks" still imprisoned by a conformist system, they cause more problems than they solve.