A stolen mermaid, a broken dad, and seven minutes that'll wreck you.
A theft with consequences: When introverted Didi is caught stealing a toy mermaid, his hyper-masculine father does not know how to handle it.
Acting
Thomas Arnold's suffocating masculine implosion.
Direction
Hoffmann turns a mall into a pressure cooker.
Director
Jerry Hoffmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
German cinema has a tradition of compact emotional devastation in shorts—this continues that lineage with surgical precision.
The toy mermaid isn't random: it represents everything the father cannot process about his son's vulnerability.
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