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Poor and rich keep on drifting apart increasingly. The German state spends 150 billion euro every year, almost half of it's budgeting, on social benefits. While Germany is the 4th powerful country - from a market economy perspective - approximately 6 million people are unemployed and almost 40% of the population depend on social benefits from the state. They are the sediment of the so-called "99%". One of them is the former GDR elite sport student Uwe "Commander" Schuster. To not get into the downward spiral of the social marginal existence, he founded a professional boxing camp in a condemned industrial facility. There he is training his "ghetto-fighters". As professional boxers they want to fulfil their dream of a better life. But the business is brutal. The one who shows a sign of weakness, has no chance. With a specially organised world junior championship match they finally want to break through! In "Roughmansday" the two filmmakers Wilhelm Domke-Schulz and Jens Rudolph have accompanied the remarkable Uwe Schuster together with 11 young filmmakers for almost one year. The film presents an unique insight into the fears, hopes and ideals from a lost class of the society.