

A female doctor trusts her son to a friend because of an emergency. When she wants to pick up her son, her child and the acquaintance disappeared.
Acting
Miriam Stein's unraveling is physically painful to watch.
Direction
Schneider squeezes dread from mundane spaces.
Editing
Tight 90 minutes — no oxygen, no mercy.

Director
Michael Schneider
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Germany's 'Fernsehfilm der Woche' tradition — prestige TV movies tackling social anxieties with feature-film craft.
Stein reportedly stayed isolated between takes to maintain Katrin's dissociated panic; the cast barely interacted off-camera.