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On a cloudy summer morning, Merle arrives at her boyfriend Romuald’s country house, in the south of France. In a jacket, carrying her luggage, she finds the doors locked. He’d invited her over to visit him, but seems to have decided to travel elsewhere. The house, though, is not empty: soon Merle realizes she will have to reach an agreement with Romuald’s children. She is going to help celebrate young Emma’s 13th birthday and deal with the abuse of Felix, the teenage son who regards her as a threat. Soon, however, they barely even miss Romuald anymore. Berlin Film Festival 2013. This film is also part of the Berlin School section.
Nicolas Wackerbarth
Born in Munich, in 1973. He studied drama at the Bavarian Theater Academy. Between 1996 and 2000, he was a member of theater group Städtische Bühnen, in Cologne. After that, he enrolled at the Academy of Film and TV in Berlin, where he studied direction. He is the coeditor of film magazine Revolver. His first feature was Everyday Objects (2013), selected for the Forum Section of the Berlin Film Festival, after a series of shorts and TV films.
