Samir Nasr

Sharaf may dream of being fabulously rich, but when he ends up in prison after killing a man in defense of his honor, he has to wake up fast. Prison mirrors the outside world, with all its systemic inequality, injustice and corruption––although, even here, Sharaf believes he can make his fortune.

Germany in the summer of 1998: the soccer World Cup begins. The effects are also felt at the night-time filling station in Heinigstraße in Ludwigshafen: Sebastian is on duty and can't even follow the German team's first game on the radio. But he has a 'soccer service': his girlfriend calls him as soon as a goal is scored.

The film tells the story of a German woman's marriage to an Algerian virologist in Hamburg. When the man comes under suspicion of having contact with Islamist terrorist circles, mistrust grows between the previously happy spouses like a creeping poison...