ABENDLAND

A group of masked activists charges at loggers working deep in the forest. Youth briefly overwhelms capital, but the state inevitably strikes back. A single activist escapes. She wears an Angela Merkel mask and is chased by the police through the forest, until she tumbles down a steep ravine, crashing into thicket of blackberries, where she lies unconscious and stranded. The reality Merkel wakes up in is both stranger and more concrete, as if she had entered a parallel world. But unlike in Robinson Crusoe or Alice in Wonderland, the strange new landscape she explores is her own country and the natives she eventually meets are her fellow citizens. They live in a hidden commune high up in the trees, having declared independence from the failing German state. At first, the isolated commune seems like a magical utopia. Still, Merkel is a refugee and an outsider. She has difficulties integrating and increasingly troubles her hosts. As tensions rise, friends and foes keep shifting around her. Merkel escapes to the forest, but one of the colonists follows her.