In times of debates around part-time employment for lifestyle reasons, I Understand Your Displeasure shines light on something unnoted in Germany: People that work themselves into the ground in the low-wage sector.

Being a team leader in a cleaning company, Heike permanently works under stress, plans shifts, fills in for lacking staff and mediates between costumers, the boss and the team. Complaints, tight schedules and narrowing budgets leave no room to breathe. In this kind of day-to-day life, exhaustion quickly turns into resentment. When time pressure, the threatening front of a subcontractor and her clandestine side earnings spiral out of control, it is not only the company, but equally Heike's moral compass, that starts to falter. She pulls the plug and seeks a way out.

Kilian Armando Friedrich, telling from within this field of work, physically hits you with its condition. In unescapable proximity, the hand camera sticks to Heike as she makes her ways through the corridors, stairwells and break rooms. Amateur actors grant the film a particular presence. The result is a brutally honest look at a system that works because people work – until they are no longer able to.