Clara is 36-years old and thinks she has made it, that she has escaped from the backwoods of Eastern Germany and belongs now to Berlin’s intellectual elite. She is doing her PhD in philosophy, her young daughter’s father has the kid during the week, she’s enjoying an affair with Max, a younger student, as well as a close friendship with her professor and admired mentor, Margot. But as Margot flirts with suicide and Clara, back where she came from, no longer feels part of her own family, she is forced to confront the painful realization that her supposed “rise” has its price.
© Harriet Meyer