Simon, a young German doctor who lives and works in Marseille, goes missing. His appartment is empty. His mother Valérie is desperate. She doesn't understand the reason of his disappearance. Therefore she asks Jens, Simon's former boyfriend, to come to Marseille and help her find him.
Acting
Corinna Harfouch's controlled unraveling—desperate mother as slow-motion car crash.
Direction
Krüger lets Marseille breathe, turning the city into a character withholding answers.
Director
Jan Krüger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Krüger intentionally cast Dehbi (Jalil) for his ambiguous energy—viewers often misread his intentions until the final scenes, mirroring Jens's own confusion.
The film quietly critiques French bureaucracy's indifference to missing persons cases involving foreigners, a real issue in Marseille's port city dynamics.
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