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Feature Film / 86 min / 2024

The construction site of a luxury building project at night in Germany: The ambitious construction manager Lutz has hired illegal construction workers to save costs. But a tragic accident occurs. The next day a meeting with investors is suddenly disrupted by Irsa, an Albanian girl, who is looking for her father. While Lutz senses an opportunity to make his mark on a multi-million dollar project, Irsa's worries about her missing father and her distress at being completely alone in the strange city with no place to stay keep driving her in Lutz's direction. Meanwhile, the investors decide to buy the apartments – a great opportunity for Lutz and his goal of getting out of debt finally seems attainable. But Irsa’s desperate search puts his career seriously in danger. To keep her away from his construction site, he claims that her father has been deported to Albania. Lutz offers to bring her back if she finally does what he says. Irsa agrees and thus begins a journey in which the roles are soon reversed. Suddenly Irsa is the superior one in the foreign country and shows Lutz a side of himself he has long forgotten. On their road trip a bond develops, marked by closeness and distance, guilt and responsibility. Can there be a future for them?

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