One signature. One murder. Zero chance of sleeping tonight.
When a convicted felon fails to return from his prison leave and a young woman is found murdered, forensic psychiatrist Roman Mettler finds himself fighting for his existence. It was him who had composed the report permitting the leave.
Acting
Martin Rapold's crumbling authority is quietly devastating.
Direction
Kulcsar makes institutional dread feel suffocatingly intimate.
Director
Barbara Kulcsar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Barbara Kulcsar specifically cast non-professionals for the immigration office scenes to heighten documentary realism—most 'clerks' were actual Swiss bureaucrats.
The film directly references Switzerland's controversial 2016 'Enforcement Initiative,' which expanded deportations for minor crimes; Roman's report mirrors real cases where psychiatrists became scapegoats for systemic failures.
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