Mike Hiller just turned 20 and lives for the moment. Between the prefabricated buildings of Rostock, where he lives in a flat with his best friend Dustin, he kills time as petty criminal, doing small business, smoking joints and dreaming of a better future with his best friend.

The System

It is a Saturday in autumn, and Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and youngest sister Clara. This family gathering provides the occasion for a dinner together, at which other relatives appear over the course of the day. While the family members animate the apartment’s space with their conversations, everyday activities and cooking preparations, the cat and dog range through the various rooms. they too become a central element in this quotidian familial dance that repeatedly manifests stylized elements, disrupting any naturalistic mode of presentation. In this way, adjoining spaces open up between family drama, fairy tale and the psychological study of a mother.