After a dark event, Jakob, recently turned 18, drops out of school and starts to work in a factory for pesticides close to Vienna. Meanwhile his family grows increasingly distant from him. They are unable to face what happened, and isolating Jakob allows them to maintain a fake sense of harmony. Jakob suffers from loneliness more every day.

Things start to change when Jakob forms an unusual connection with Marius, a factory colleague who is over thirty years older than him. But as the two of them draw closer, Jakob‘s past rises to the surface. In a desperate move, Jakob finds himself in front of Marius‘ doorstep at night, first acting playfully but quickly offering himself naked to him, searching for a second chance of a first time.

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Feature film, fiction

Austria/ Germany​

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Screenplay: Simon Maria Kubiena 

Producers: Elli Leeb & Fabian Leonhardt (Chimera Film)

Commissioning Editor ZDF: Melvina Kotios

 

​Supported by: ÖFI Austrian Film Institute, FFA German Federal Film Board, ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, La Résidence de Festival de Cannes

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Selected for CineLink Co-Production Market at Sarajevo Film Festival 2025 & Alliance 4 Development at Locarno Film Festival (Alphapanda Market Breakout Award + MidPoint Consulting Award)

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