Hard Life – I want to get out of my foster home

Michael has lived in a foster home for 16 years. He had to learn to fend for himself from a young age. In the hopes of improving conditions for children in foster homes across Germany, he regularly posts TikTok videos about his life and has hundreds of thousands of followers.

This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.