A better life is to begin for street child Anna in the mountain wasteland of all places. Where psychiatry and youth welfare services fail, only the experience of one's own limits can help, according to the mission of the unconventional educator Geena. On her mountain farm, she wants to reawaken a feeling for the existentially important things in life in her protégé through clear rules and daily work on the mountain pasture. But the unruly and disturbed girl has little faith in herself and the suffering she has experienced has left deep wounds in her childish soul...
Acting
Corinna Harfouch's terrifying tenderness as Geena.
Cinematography
Mountains as mirror: beautiful, brutal, indifferent.
Director
Sebastian Kutzli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film engages with Germany's Heimerziehung (residential care) crisis, where youth welfare often cycles children through failing systems—a reality that made headlines when the film premiered.
Director Kutzli worked with actual social workers and at-risk youth; the mountain farm setting mirrors real Austrian 'therapeutic agriculture' programs, though the film deliberately refuses to validate them.
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