

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.
Feature film, fiction
Austria/ Germany
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
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)