Sebastian Ladwig

On New Year’s Eve, in the streets of Berlin, Alex delivers coke driving her taxi. Three other car journeys capture three earlier moments in a life marked by personal tragedy. From season to season, an interior journey into states of being.

A talented teenage violinist auditions at a prestigious institute. When the examiner criticises her playing for lacking emotional depth, she resorts to drastic measures.

Tim is about to graduate from high school. He goes to parties with friends, takes exams, and has his first date with a classmate. At night, he makes videos of himself displaying his masculinity, declaring his hatred of women, and announcing his plan to go on a killing spree on the last day of school. But the closer his self-proclaimed “Judgment Day” comes, the harder it is for him to live up to his archetypal ideal of masculinity.

An elderly woman tries to speak to her deceased husband in an unusual way.

Nico (33), German-Persian, emancipated and happy, is the most popular geriatric nurse for her patients. With her best friend Rosa (37), she enjoys the summer in Berlin. A xenophobic attack tears the self-confident NICO from its self-determined everyday life. Waking up in the hospital, she realizes that she doesn't seem to be a part of it after all.

When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in the videos – whom he thought long dead. He tries everything to get in contact, to save his sister, to inform the public about this brutal war. And loses himself.

Marie and Luis meet at a costume party and immediately fall for each other. What begins as a dream of true love increasingly turns into a nightmare. Because Luis is addicted to sex. And Marie is addicted to Luis.