Julia Helbich

Modesto, an escaped and desperate convict, now finds himself at the center of a hostage situation and must try to talk his wife out of divorcing him and overcome his murderous rage.

Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.

Katja Winzer lives with her eight-year-old son Tobias and her partner Jürgen in a small town near Bremerhaven. When Tobias does not come home one evening after playing games, and broadcasts remain fruitless throughout the circle of friends, Katja turns on the police. For Katja begins a nightmare of waiting, hope and fear, where she threatens to break. Only weeks later, the terrible idea that Tobias could have become a victim of a violent crime, to the certainty.