Walburg von Waldenfels

A psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for killing fifteen people with arsenic. Known by her neighbors and friends as a merciful Christian, loving mother and devoted wife, she poisoned within fifteen years her parents, her brother, two husbands, three children and numerous friends. When caught, she never denied her deeds, but could not give any reason.

Remedio is Spanish for reparation, remedy. Remedio is also a woman's name. The film tells the story of an ambivalent love affair. An older woman washes her mother. The movements over the old woman's body become a journey of memory, the body is the map. Remedio touches her mother as she has never touched her before, and she tells her things she has never told her before. The old woman remains silent.