A broke ex-con and a junkie teen walk into a stable—no punchline, just bruises.
The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.
Acting
Ratte-Polle's silences hit harder than dialogue.
Direction
Hellsgård finds beauty in fluorescent-lit mundanity.
Director
Carolina Hellsgård
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anne Ratte-Polle spent weeks working at actual racetracks to nail the physicality of stable labor.
Part of a wave of post-reunification German cinema examining working-class women left behind by economic 'progress.'
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