Veronika Hertlein

The engineer Rosalie leads a life without standing still. She doesn't feel old for a long time, only mature. When Rosalie returns to Germany after a fainting spell at a solar project in Africa, it's just supposed to be a breather. When she shows up at her bourgeois sister Margret's with a huge container, she is not very enthusiastic about the surprise visit. The retired teacher sees right through that Rosalie isn't staying with her voluntarily. The well-travelled woman is broke! It seems like a miracle that there are a huge chunk of banknotes in a hole in the wall of the room. On the other side of the wall there is the room of the highly talented high school graduate Karla, who rents a part of Margret's house with her father Harald. After a failed first meeting, Rosalie befriends with the wheelchair-bound teenager and sets her mind on getting Karla out of her sheltered isolation, even against her will.

Alors qu’elle vient tout juste de prendre sa retraite, la pimpante Hanne apprend, lors d'un examen de routine, qu’elle présente une anomalie sanguine nécessitant d’urgence des analyses approfondies. Le médecin qui la reçoit l’annonce de but en blanc : il pourrait s’agir d’une leucémie, mais le diagnostic ne pourra être confirmé que trois jours plus tard. La dynamique sexagénaire, qui s’apprêtait à savourer enfin ses premiers instants de liberté, doit affronter dans la solitude un long week-end d’angoisse. Oscillant entre hébétude, déni et pulsion de vie, Hanne trouvera dans cette difficile parenthèse l’occasion de laisser libre cours à une spontanéité longtemps réprimée.