Caro lives happily with her 18-year-old son Ben. Her ex-husband Manni moved out a long time ago and has a new family. Ben is now at an age where he is very bored of the occasional sailing trips and visits to relatives with his mother. But there is a lot to try out: late nights, clubs, girls and drugs. Caro has to experience how Ben tells her less and less and needs her less and less. When she sees surveillance footage of a robbery at a petrol station, where she was with her son shortly before, her protective instinct is awakened.
Acting
Corinna Harfouch's anxious micro-expressions carry the whole thing.
Director
Petra Katharina Wagner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Petra Katharina Wagner mostly works in German television; this premiered on ARD's 'Movie of the Week' slot typically reserved for middlebrow domestic dramas.
The 'Heimatfilm' tradition of German cinema—intimate family sagas—meets modern parental surveillance anxiety, essentially making this 'Helicopter Parenting: The Movie'.
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