Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.

Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...

2015 film by Barbet Schroeder

1986 film by Markus Imhoof

A chemical engineer of foreign origin faces discrimination and bullying at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.

After his wife is forced to give up 40 years of her life as payment for an insurance debt, a man desperately searches for a way to get them back.