Acting
On a young waitress’s birthday, the perplexing appearance of one of her deceased mother’s homemade cakes deeply troubles her. Over her shift that evening, surrounded by happy families in the little restaurant where she works, memories of her mother crowd in, and her attempts to repress her emotions grow ever more difficult.
Returning from a holiday in the early hours of the morning, a young couple walk through the streets of Zürich, dragging suitcases behind them. Bleary-eyed and exhausted from their journey, they bicker. As they wait on a train platform to continue homeward, a misunderstanding occurs. Confusion rises and doubts awaken. Where do they go from here?
In the standstill of the pandemic summer, a young couple wants to start anew and move from Hanover to Berlin. To say goodbye, they are throwing a farewell dinner. But good friends cancel — and uninvited guests show up. Soon, secret longings, misunderstandings and human abysses of the privileged dinner guests are revealed. Here, everyone is fighting only for themselves: a “bubble” that seems to have everything and yet threatens to despair of itself.
When scientist Elena presents a book about the climate crisis on a TV show, she is hit by a storm of criticism. In a documentary, she tries to defend herself against misogyny on the internet. But the virtual threat threatens to become real. An unknown person is stalking Elena, and other events are directed against her family. Or is she just imagining it?
In the dark depths of the net, Bernadette teams up with the enigmatic influencer duo Kitty and Peter to orchestrate the demise of student Lotte – a live stream meant to leave the internet buzzing. However, Bernadette imagined all of this quite differently.
