

Dedicated nurse Floria navigates the relentless pace of her hospital’s understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As her overnight shift intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.
Acting
Leonie Benesch's trembling hands deserve their own award category.
Direction
Volpe shoots chaos like a thriller, grief like a documentary.

Director
Petra Biondina Volpe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Swiss hospitals during COVID; real nurses appear as extras. The exhaustion you see is documentary-level real.
Volpe deliberately never shows Floria's home life—we only exist in the hospital with her, trapped in the same temporal nightmare.