After two decades in prison a former RAF terrorist is released. He meets Valerie his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widmer, the two of them seem to have something in common. They discreetly enter into the secrets of their lives. Till the truth comes between them.


After 22 years in prison, the one-time terrorist Widmer has been released. Widmer was a leading member of the “second generation of the RAF [Red Army Fraction, in its early phase a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof Gang].” During a kidnapping that backfired badly, his commando killed von Seichfeld, a bank director – as well as one of Seichfeld’s employees. To this very day it has never been determined with absolute certainty who fired the deadly shots then. All the other participants in the commando are dead save Marita, who
was Widmer’s lover in those past days. As state witness, Marita has testified against Widmer and thus secured her own pardon.

Widmer’s attorney Ellen has furnished him with a place in an anonymous apartment complex in Freiburg. Widmer would like to reintegrate himself in everyday life of a world he has not gotten used to yet. The first thing he would like is to take care of some “simple matters” – but above all, he wants to make contact with his son Samy, who is a grownup by now. All those years Widmer wrote him letters every month from prison. But his letters were delivered to Samy’s mother Marita, and Samy never got any of them. Widmer’s neighbor in the next apartment is a young woman called Valerie. She also is a client of lawyer Ellen. After Valerie had beaten and injured her eight-year-old son, he was put under public custody and lives with foster parents now. Widmer isn’t aware that Valerie is the daughter of the gardener who had been shot dead in the assault. He senses her tension but has no way of knowing Valerie is searching for her father’s murderer. Valerie is driven by a wish for revenge...



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Genre	Thriller / Drama
Year	2008
Length	92 min
Language	German with English Subtitles
Format	35 mm, 1: 1,85
Sound	Dolby SRD

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