Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This marks the beginning of an extraordinary e-mail exchange, which can only be held between two strangers. Treading the fine line between complete strangeness and noncommittal intimacy, the two are soon sharing their innermost secrets and longings – until they need to face the unavoidable question: Will their feelings, sent and received virtually, survive the test of a real-life encounter? And what will happen if they do?
Writing
Witty German wordplay that somehow survives subtitles.
Acting
Tschirner and Fehling make typing sexy. Seriously.
Director
Vanessa Jopp
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Based on Daniel Glattauer's novel 'Gut gegen Nordwind,' which spawned a real-life epistolary phenomenon across German-speaking Europe.
The entire film hinges on whether two people who constructed idealized versions of each other can survive reality—literally the plot of every online relationship ever.
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