A researcher at the Pergamon Museum conducting a three-week assessment of a humanoid robot named Tom. Initially skeptical, she develops a profound emotional and physical connection with him, confronts her fears of aging and loss, and ultimately ends the experiment early before reuniting with him in Denmark.
Astrid is the central mother figure, caring for Phillip and Flo while struggling with fear, loneliness, and emotional exhaustion. She worries that Phillip will be judged unfairly at school, confronts a filmmaker about truth and art, and argues with Lars about love, marriage, and having another child.
Sophie is a young photographer who swaps apartments with Zelda in Marseille to get away from Berlin. She photographs the city, meets mechanic Pierre, borrows his car, and spends evenings with him and his friends. Back in Berlin, she resumes her old life while concealing her love for Ivan, then returns to Marseille.
Helene Jacobs is a German woman who gives Cioma Schönhaus refuge after a warrant is issued for his arrest. Cioma lives peacefully in her home for a period, but Helene is eventually betrayed by a friend and arrested. Her imprisonment leaves Cioma without a safe place and prompts his desperate flight toward Switzerland.
Sabine waits at Orly and finds the courage, in the anonymity of the public terminal, to read a farewell letter from her husband, Theo. The letter and her relationship with Theo form the focus of her airport story.
Ariane is a woman who waits for her son and reflects on how reading and acting once allowed her to imagine being someone else. She acknowledges that acting did not ease her loneliness, which she connects to growing up in a small town in a very small family.
Maren Eggert has 33 screen credits in a career dating back to 1991. Signature works include I'm Your Man, The Experiment, I Was at Home, But.... Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
