Monika Freinberger

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist for whom sex is “just another market”, and waits for the end of capitalism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn’t make it beyond the first sentence of the second chapter, and she finds no space between art galleries, yoga studios and the beds of strangers. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts regarding her depression as a political issue.

Pippa meets her ex-girlfriend Jael at a wedding party. The encounter triggers memories not only of the end of their relationship, but also of the trauma they experienced together. Since a queerphobic assault, Pippa has a post-traumatic stress disorder, which makes enjoying the here and now impossible. When Pippa has a panic attack, Jael and the group of friends manage to calm her down and Pippa understands that she can finally overcome her fears.

A 100-year-long curse must be overcome by the 16-year-old Prince Parvus to wake up the sleeping Princess Rosabella. But he doubts that he is the right person for this mission. However, plant lover Parvus does not have much left time. Together with Feerich Amon and Rosabellas thoughts that they can feel with the help of a magical mist, he has to get into the castle before he the death curse of the dark fairy Rubia has been fulfilled.

Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.