Directing
Grandma has become a little doddery. And since the death of her husband, called E.O., ever bigger gaps have opened in her memory, and her disorientation has increased. Director Astrid Menzel makes a decision: to take a ten-day canoe trip on northern German waters with her brother and the 86-year-old lady. An adventure whose outcome is uncertain and which the three travellers have to face anew at every stage.
An all too familiar phenomenon: an aging couple refuses to acknowledge their physical and mental decline. Dementia Sisyphus and depressive everyday lethargy gradually transform Paul and Elisabeth into helpless puppets of themselves. Nevertheless, both indignantly reject the daughter's offers of help.
